This was not their only hare-brained scheme.
They came up with one idiotic scam after another to seize more and more control. I told them that if they didn't leave me alone, I would have to sell the property and that the only people who would buy it were developers who would destroy the old growth forests, animal habitats, fire lanes, and everything.
These "Environmentalists" didn't care. What they want is control--and to be Big Shots. Such people are basically schoolyard bullies.
They didn't leave me alone.
A group of developers offered me 4 times what I paid for the property (after 5 years).
I sold them the property.
They razed the forest. It's now a huge weed patch.
I'm millions of dollars richer.
I wept when they started cutting down the forest.
This is what the "Environmentalists" accomplished.
Needless to say, I have nothing but contempt for these people.
Glad you made out okay even though it wasn’t what you really wanted. Sounds like you wanted to be a good steward of the land but the dumbasses forced your hand. So they think they got over/won since you sold because of their bullying. What a brilliant bunch. Gang-green.
The Army Corps of Engineers (ACoE), The State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) are every bit as bad as the State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), all of which are under the EPA’s thumb. I worked with/fought them all for 22yrs as a Farmer, and finally gave-up in 2011.
Developers pay their environmentalists to do that.
Ah, I see that you were referring to your own experience with a state and am happy for you on how it worked out. In my area, local government folks are calling a trickle above 9,000 feet elevation a wetland in hope of getting more federal money somehow. That creek has never flooded anything of value (about 12-13 inches of precipitation a year, mostly ice blown from nearby peaks), and the land around it is nearly dry as a bone. Interestingly, lots on the short creek (only about four miles long) are owned by a few government employees and pensioners.