I hear you on the wet land issue but my position is that I am restoring a pond that has dried up. It was dug into wetland 15 years ago and was beautiful. Cattails,otter that we watched catch fish in the winter and full of life. Now it is 50 ft puddle,frogs gone,turtles gone,fish gone��. We had Blanding turtles. The primary threat to the Blanding's turtle is habitat fragmentation and destruction as well as nest predation. It is listed as a threatened species in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin. I thought about trying to get the DNR and Rice Creek Watershed to look at it and see if I could get them to restore it. But that will take forever-if ever! The funny thing is the wetland update has about 10% of my wetland gone from 10 years ago. It is going away and I want it to stay! I do risk the neighbor thing because one called on another neighbor before. And he is unemployed right now so risk is high. I am doing it anyway with past photo�s to support my claim that I am not digging new but cleaning it up. (LOL) It is all sand so unless it is at the water table, or I seal it somehow, it is going away. I plan to rebuild the sides with what I dig ( and they are not to code as they sit today, to steep) and lessen the slope from my house so piles will not be a problem. I guess I am no longer a whole state here! Although they could most likely put the whole state in a corner of TX! What part are you in?
