[DoughtyOne]

That’s a different angle than I came up with, but there are sometimes advantages to attacking problems from other than an obvious direction.

[Carry_Okie]

Think of land as a process reactor in the time domain. That's what it really is. Hence, it changes stuff that comes in into whatever goes out. How we use that property is what determines what goes out. That's a service. To take control of that reactor away from the owner for public benefit is to take the property. If the owner cannot control use, he does not own the property.

That is the essential abstraction underlying my environmental management business method. It is also the essence of a mitigation market.

Thus, to regulate is ALWAYS a taking, a market in which government has no business meddling. It should instead make sure that fraud in such contracts is redressed.