Local "Wetland Reconstruction"

Dustin1981

I will start this post with a little bit of back story. I work for a hotel the has a large wooded wetland area the backs the property. This area has been home to plenty of wildlife including a nice size family of Redtail Hawks, Owls and tons of Deer. I enjoy eating lunch out back and watching the animals durring the summer and really love finding the shed racks of the resident monster buck (15 points this year with 6" drops). So I get to work today and do the property walk with the other managers and we find a few large areas taped off. I make a call to the people that owned the property to find that they sold it. After a few more calls I find that they have already started work on this so called Wetland Reconstruction. I talked with the property next door to us and found that they are building a road bypass to help with the traffic at the closest intersection that will cut right into the woods and they are building a Hospice Center with its own access road that will cut right into the woods right behind my hotel. After talking to the contractors working on the project I got a copy of the plans and the entire wooded area will be gone. I am not a eco-hippie or anything but I find that this is crazy. How can they take one of the last wooded areas in the city and build a parking lot and call it Wetland Reconstruction. I grew up hunting and fishing and I love the outdoors and this just pisses me off. The worst part is that there is a hospital with a huge campus that is sitting mostly empty less than 2 miles away. Sorry if this is running on but it just pissed me off and I wanted to share or "vent"

undulac

Best of luck. Damn shame.

Hays

fla-gypsy

Oh you didn't get that memo, The Govt doesn't really give a rats behind about saving habitat, only increasing the tax roles and calling it habitat restoration. When you actually save some accidentally they will do their damndest to keep all humans out of it to protect the wildlife, unless of course it is needed for another "wetlands reconstruction project" Our present Govt sucks!. Rant over!

laker1963

fla-gypsy:

Oh you didn't get that memo, The Govt doesn't really give a rats behind about saving habitat, only increasing the tax roles and calling it habitat restoration. When you actually save some accidentally they will do their damndest to keep all humans out of it to protect the wildlife, unless of course it is needed for another "wetlands reconstruction project" Our present Govt sucks!. Rant over!

So if / when Obama and the Dems. are replaced this kind of stupidity will end? This is a new Obama type program? Yep bring back bush and the republicans, they sure knew how to run a country !

fla-gypsy

memo to Laker: Bush went home to Texas smoking a good stick and no longer gives a damn about what anyone thinks about him. The Dems control EVERYTHING right now and are quickly pushing us toward a political revolution in this country. I know everything is just okey dokey up there but for 3 years all I heard was how W was ruining the country. So this is how we fix it?? I don't think so, in fact I am confident a bunch of these idiots will be packing their bags in November. Obama has never run anything and the loser/thug he is smells like the rotten stench that is the Democratic Party. I am forced to vote for Republicans or vote for tards. I will attempt to find some true conservative candidates who actually love their nation in the coming elections. The only other option is armed insurrection and we already tried that. I know it brings you great pleasure to see upheaval here but do not think for a minute that failures to control a Govt run amuck here will not have an impact on the rest of the world.

laker1963

fla-gypsy:

memo to Laker: Bush went home to Texas smoking a good stick and no longer gives a damn about what anyone thinks about him. The Dems control EVERYTHING right now and are quickly pushing us toward a political revolution in this country. I know everything is just okey dokey up there but for 3 years all I heard was how W was ruining the country. So this is how we fix it?? I don't think so, in fact I am confident a bunch of these idiots will be packing their bags in November. Obama has never run anything and the loser/thug he is smells like the rotten stench that is the Democratic Party. I am forced to vote for Republicans or vote for tards. I will attempt to find some true conservative candidates who actually love their nation in the coming elections. The only other option is armed insurrection and we already tried that. I know it brings you great pleasure to see upheaval here but do not think for a minute that failures to control a Govt run amuck here will not have an impact on the rest of the world.

You don't know JACK about me . The questions stands... are you saying that the Obama admin. is responsible for the wetlands issue brought up in this thread? That's silly. I was only trying to point out how you were blaming Obama and his administration for policies and government stupidity which has been going on for a LONG time and not confined to one political party, or one country for that matter. Are you always so bitter and hostile? Does it work for you?

Garen B

laker1963

fla-gypsy

You say plenty my friend and anything goes on an "opinion" based board. Just expressing mine too. I would love to smoke a stick with you some time and further explore my disdain for political types in general.

kuzi16

lilwing88

Ooooooo...... I'm popping some popcorn. This is getting good.....

ljl

laker1963

laker1963

phobicsquirrel

NOT more of this... oh sweet lord.. Anyway, I can't speak for the rest of the country nor have I done any looking into it, but for Oregon there has been a lot of work on wild life and other projects. I was watching a show on discovery about flooding and what not and the scary thing is that wetlands and marshes are a large help for land when it comes to flooding. One of things about the Katrina flooding, is that the wetlands were so neglected. They help absorb the coming hurricanes. California has a huge issue with their wetlands. Basically the beauty of this country has been destroyed by industry and it saddens me very much. My ex's parents had a house built off of the Gorge, and after a few years of them living there, a new development started tearing down trees and a huge amount of land. That area was very peaceful and very green which made being on their deck fantastic. Now it's just more crappy homes and the value of their house has went down. The neighbors protested but ultimately were SOL.

kuzi16

laker1963:

Ummm, while Obama wasn't "named" in the first post, I believe this answer clearly shows intention, and does name him...

im confused by this sentence a bit. were you saying that you thing his intend was that its Obama's fault or are you saying that you named him as an example... er something?

laker1963

phobicsquirrel

laker1963:

kuzi16:

laker1963:

Ummm, while Obama wasn't "named" in the first post, I believe this answer clearly shows intention, and does name him...

im confused by this sentence a bit. were you saying that you thing his intend was that its Obama's fault or are you saying that you named him as an example... er something?

I was responding to what you were saying about nobody said it was Obamas fault. Then you said that maybe he meant the State government. However the original post was from someone who lives in your State of Ohio, and Fla-Gypsy lives in Florida. So he obviously wasn't talking about the State government, as they do NOT share a State government. My comment was pointing out that he was blaming Obama and the Democrats and he said as much in his next post. What's so confusing?

Democrats have done far less to cause harm to the environment. That much is for sure. But I do think WAY more needs to be done to fix all the problems that we have done. I think cutting fossil fuel's would be a good start.

fla-gypsy

Actually my first post was directed at ALL pols in general and my utter disdain for them. You drug Party affiliation and W into it trying to make some kind of comparison. I have no great love of the job they did the last 4 years they controlled the Govt either.

laker1963

kuzi16

fla-gypsy