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To: WhiteyAppleseed
A safe harbor agreement assures landowners that improving habitat for species will not restrict land-use options on their land in the future.

Farmers, when I was a kid, used to leave a row or two on the end or side of their fields for the local habit. Rabbits, deer, pheasants, foxes, etc. were common on every farm and ranch because of the attitude of the country living folks. They enjoyed watching the wildlife on their property.

Along comes the EPA and ESA, the farmers starting cutting and burning the ditches, cutting every bit of possible growth out of their fields. WHY ? Because they are terrified that the EPA or ESA is going to come along and say, "You have this endangered <>snake<>bug<>animal<>turtle<> living on your property and we are ordering that you do not use fertilizer or grow crop in this 160 acre field!

Common sense went out the window when the UN started these agencies!

10 posted on 04/10/2002 8:14:26 PM PDT by B4Ranch
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To: B4Ranch
"Along comes the EPA and ESA, the farmers starting cutting and burning the ditches, cutting every bit of possible growth out of their fields. WHY ?"

Every drain, a wetland. Every fencerow, a critical habitat.

13 posted on 04/10/2002 9:09:48 PM PDT by okie01
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To: B4Ranch
Common sense went out the window when the UN started these agencies!

The UN is an American creation. It is intended as a get-around against the Constitution using the supposed primacy of internaitonal law. It benefits the extremely rich almost exclusively, all altruistic crocodile tears to the contrary.

20 posted on 04/10/2002 10:22:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
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