[Robert A Cook PE]

Let's see here:

5 specialists (figure a paid salary of 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 each),

Plus overhead costs that double the actual pay,

Plus one-three bureacrats/admin types for the 5 at 40,000.00

PLus trucks and supplies and laboratory fees and field support of easily 100,000.00 per year ...

Researching this natural "mud" in one county in one state "for the nature lovin' enviro's (and the universities they live on) each year probably costs the remaining taxpayers over 1,000,000.00 dollars annually.

[Carry_Okie]

Researching this natural "mud" in one county in one state "for the nature lovin' enviro's (and the universities they live on) each year probably costs the remaining taxpayers over 1,000,000.00 dollars annually.

WAYYYY under budget. Cartographers for the GIS layout, regulations to be drafted (Santa Cruz drafted the blueprint for the whole State, and after California it just gets replicated), new grading regulations, policies and procedures to write for each profession, training for all the inspectors and planners, new timber harvest regulations to pass, foresters to interpret them... all brought to you by the IUCN.

It's a gift that keeps on giving. Then consider the lost opportunity and what happens when there is a fire.