Posted on 01/19/2025 7:39:56 AM PST by cuz1961
California couple fined $165,000 for damaging rare Central Coast flower habitat.....
San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow announced on Wednesday that his office had settled an environmental enforcement action against the couple, who agreed to pay $165,000 in civil penalties.
.
... grows in small patches on private properties, according to the California Native Plant Society.
.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
After you know how to raise them and what to expect (some varieties don't blossom every year). Here is a hint for orchids. After you figure out their need for sunlight (or lack thereof) you can ignore them except for watering every week or so and some fertilizer several times a year.
My sister in law grows many varieties of orchids that each requires something a little different, but not by much. She now rotates her blossoming orchids into her house. She told me that it is common for when she get a new variety, it dies or almost dies while she tries to determine what it wants. It usually wants something a little different. She told me one type that was a challenge, She killed the first one and on a whim she changed the other one's location in under the grow lamp by 12 inches. It prospered and quickly gave off sympathetic offspring.
That couple needs to find another State to develop property on.
There is truth to climate change making fires more intense.
I have a decades old Zippo lighter with equally old Ronson fluid. I got it out of storage to light a BBQ, lit it and the flame was dangerously high. I took it to the shop and could actually cut steel with it! /s/
To the informed these SeeBS people and others are making fools of themselves. To the useful idiots they are god like creatures scaring the hell out of them.
It is strange that it refuses to grow on public lands.
How do it know?
“Who would know that something in their yard was endangered?”
Someone who had hired a botanist to survey the property as they did.
Yea, I saw that. Still...is the average person who intends to do anything in their yard going to realize that, or pay the money to get a botanist? And all you need is a nosey neighbor to sic the gov’t on you to end up with a huge fine. These rules are all terribly unjust.
Wow
Bet it is not really endangered. Sierra Club trick, find a fake study and then stop a business or develepment.
The taxpayers should have to buy private property containing something the taxpayers want protected; which means saving species n private property should not be an enforcement action but an eminent domain land purchase action and each such action should have the voters approval in as much as it is their taxes that will have to pay for taking the property public.
It looks like something I mowed over last summer.
<>It’s a failed state.<>
Giving fire disaster $ to these people to help Californians is like giving $ to Hamas to help Palestinians.
If a fire swept through the area and destroyed the plants, would the fine still stick?
= = =
Yes, because you did not clear that land, to prevent fire spread.
See, that is democrat virus influence on my brain.
Fair point. Demographics have shifted dramatically in CA over the last 15 years. While I think there is cheating going on, not sure it’s needed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.