[holyscroller]

The last thing you want on your property is a wetland! Get a list of all "wetland weeds" in your county, and pull and dispose of them (off site) at night. Also, slowly start filling in that pond. In my state, we have 150-200 foot setbacks from wetlands and ponds. They can end up stopping you from using your entire property.

It's similar to finding a spotted owl has taken up residence in one of your trees. You can kiss any property and property rights good bye.

[I still care]

I have an old National Geographic from the 60’s. In it they talk about a logging company finding a very old, very large tree. The owner marked it off to leave it untouched, and built a fence around it. He also brought it to the attention of the forest service.

Nowadays I bet the first person to find such a tree would get it down asap, before anyone saw it because of the tyrannical environmental laws.

They leave nothing up to the goodness of men anymore. As a result, they get more and more tyrannical and people get more and more lawless.

[Stegall Tx]

I wish I could do something to stop what seems inevitable. However, the "pond" is just the lowest part of the section that the farm is in. To fill it in, I'd have to haul in enough fill to cover a square mile of land roughly 20' deep.

Come to think of it, since the low spot roughly straddles our fence, I could start dragging out a little dirt from the neighbor's land over to my side of the fence ... .