[guitarplayer1953]

How is their property any different than their neighbors? It would seem that if all the land was a wet land then even their neighbors would be in violation too.

[Baynative]

The EPA (Richard Nixon's legacy offering to liberals) has the authority to make and enforce its own laws. It can declare any puddle or mud bog as a wetland.

THIS MONSTER MUST BE KILLED

[Paladin2]

It’s a seasonal wetland ID’d as such by the Fish and Wildlife Service with caveats that their analysis could be off (other branches of the GOVT could have a different determination) and that folks should check with their gov’ts, which the Sacketts more or less did.

[healy61]

I would wager that one of the bordering neighbors didn’t want their little half-acre of heaven to have a new neighbor.

[Paladin2]

"How is their property any different than their neighbors?"

It wasn't developed before the satellite and software survey was done.

[genghis]

How is their property any different than their neighbors? It would seem that if all the land was a wet land then even their neighbors would be in violation too.

you are probably correct and i am not an attorney, but it seems to me the epa ha a great deal of latitude how to mess with.
They decide and little (up until now) can be done about it.