You are welcome to your opinion, and thankfully FR is here to let you express it.
We disagree here, and I will let it go at that. I am not anti-rich. Rather I have a big thing for individual property rights and individual responsibility within the rule of law.
A million dollar fine for cutting 100 pines in a national forest would be excessive, no doubt. Here on Lake Lanier there is an identifiable behavior problem with folks ignoring widely known laws about destroying or altering the landscape of the National parkland that surrounds the lake. If you buy property bordering the lake, you do not (with RARE exceptions) have a property line that makes it to the water. You do not own the land or foliage past your property lines.
Why is it OK to cut foliage or move earth on land you don’t own?
Hint: it’s not.
That’s all. The bad behavior happens to be correlated to the noveau-rich of the Atlanta metro are. MANY wealthy folks are good stewards of the lake and parkland.
Oh, many of these are the same folks who operate wake boats which are RUINING the shoreline. But I digress.
I didn’t say it was ok
I said like I do specific things
Pine trees as you should know are the possum of trees....everywhere
Excerpt in Missouri Ozarks they were likely planted
They were immature 20 years max
It’s some sort of national trail so I assume national jurisdiction
Folks here say million dollars or I hope he loses his home blah blah blah
That’s my gripe...
Let’s stick to what I said....strawman like the anti rich bias I’ve seen here from jump street is not new on free republic
Frankly it’s a sour bumch
I’m here for my friends....you are polite