Imagine the horror!
Posted on 08/22/2007 2:52:54 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Midler Wrongly Hacks Down 200 Trees
LIHUE, Hawaii (Aug. 22) - Bette Midler cut down more than 230 trees around one of her properties on the island of Kauai without a permit, and the state has recommended she be fined.
An attorney for Bette Midler says the trees that were cut down were foreign to Hawaii, and that she had plans to re-introduce native plants to the land.
The staff of the Board of Land and Natural Resources recommended $6,500 in fines for having the trees felled and for building a graded road without permits required for the land zoned for conservation use.
The singer and actress will pay the fines and will follow a replanting program, her attorney Max W. J. Graham said.
The actress and movie star, who was born in Honolulu, didn't realize permits were needed to remove the trees on a vacant 58,000-square-foot parcel of land on Kauai's North Shore, Graham said.
"The whole idea with cutting the trees down was with the idea of improving the lot with native species" instead of the nonnative, invasive species that had grown there, Graham said. "It's unfortunate that a mistake was made."
The National Tropical Botanical Garden, which maintains three gardens on Kauai, will design a replanting plan that consists of appropriate native plants, Graham said.
A botanist hired by Midler after the fact said 120 Java plum trees, 100 octopus trees and 10 to 20 Madagascar olive trees that were cut down were all nonnative species. Some native trees also were removed from the property, the botanist said.
Midler, known for her longtime commitment to the environment, was once known as the Compost Queen and appeared on billboards in Los Angeles advocating green recycling containers are for yard trimmings.
Midler is set to replace Celine Dion as a headline performer at Las Vegas's renovated Caesars Palace next year.
That’s $28 per tree. The wood was worth 3 times that much.
What? Did she think she owned the land or something ? Private property is fast becoming a quaint part of our past as the socialists take over....
Didn't mean to dignify this conversation with a reference to breasts...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
This is the green nut who wanted to buy NYC owned vacant lots for community gardens instead of selling them off to developers.
Imagine the horror!
is that 80 year old lady breast height or 21 year old coed?
She had to cut down the trees so she could plant more trees and reduce Al Gore’s carbon footprint. It’s all a plan to save the earth.
She must be a conservationist, see it’s ok for them to do this not big business for profit or little ol us.
'scuse me, I didn't catch that...
She’s a crappy liberal....who should be allowed to do as she pleases with the trees, native or otherwise. I stand in support of Bette Midler.
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LONG ISLAND STATE PARKS HONOR BETTE MIDLER
Legendary Entertainer and Environmentalist Receives Annual Master Builder Award
(Albany, NY April 16, 2004...) State Parks Commissioner Bernadette Castro today announced that noted singer, actress and environmentalist Bette Midler was receiving the Long Island State Parks' Seventh Annual Master Builder Award. The honor is in recognition of her achievements in the entertainment industry and her founding of the New York Restoration Project, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing and maintaining parklands, gardens, and public spaces in New York City.
"The whole idea with cutting the trees down was with the idea of improving the lot with native species" instead of the nonnative, invasive species that had grown there, Graham said. "It's unfortunate that a mistake was made."
You can't even lie well, you big mouthed hypocrite.
Face it,Bet. You feel only the elite can make their view more pleasant, pollute and enjoy all the world has to offer.
Peasantry, on the other hand, will use up the gas for your jet setting lifestyle , so THEY should do without, so YOU can have more.
I say put her in leg irons because as long as socialists think they can restrict our property rights and not have the same restrictions placed on them...they’ll keep doing it! No, make her life the bureaucratic HELL that they make it for the rest of us.
Nice try with the native species ploy, Bette. Unfortunately the ROAD you graded is NON-NATIVE.
“didn’t realize permits were needed to remove the trees”
Yeah, riiiight! The people she hired to cut down the trees would have certainly known that permits were required. Unless she hacked ‘em down herself! I call BULLSH!T!
Sounds like Bette has a pretty harsh policy for dealing with illegal immigrant...trees.
Hmm, let’s see. Bette Midler is 5’1” tall so breast height would be about 4’3”. Her bust measurement is 36 1/2” times 230 trees, hmm...carry the 3, times $10 per inch - That’s a lot of money!
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