Rex, it's not the regulation itself I was referring to as a worst case scenario. It's the IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT of same. That's where the stumbling block will come into play.
I think it's a matter of logistics. Who is going to do all of the legwork, on all of the hundreds of thousands of private ponds in the country? On-site visitations, testing, follow up visits?
I no longer worry about the future of my land, or my ponds. I have learned that I cannot fight my children's, or grandchildren's battles for them. It's a romantic notion that suggests I need to leave everything to them just as I found it, and an even more romantic ideal to think they desire it to be this way in the first place. They may be seeing dollar signs and housing developments, not ponds and maple trees.
This is my time, to do as I think best. And I think that by the time all the scuffling over this ruling has began to die down, it will be election time. Then there will be further delays while the new administration beat their drums and make speeches. Then there will be the need to fill the thousands of positions that will be needed if there is to be any hope of enforcing these new regs. All the while, there will be challenges, and lawsuits, and revisions, and stays of action. I've seen how fast my government works...I'm not worried in the least.
I look at it like I do HBG. People get all upset and concerned over trying to prevent reproduction...that's pointless. There's nothing you can do to control that. You should be focused on controlling the implementation....recruitment. Just one guy's opinion.
