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ALL PONDMEISTERS MUST EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTEWe recently completed our electoral primaries for our vote on Why do you own a pond? See the Pond vote; election primaries thread for details and results. - To understand the thrust of this election, let's borrow a brief summary from our primary election: This forum is based largely on owning and maintaining private fishin' holes. There is a base core of PB posters that eat, sleep, and drink the pond fishin' stuff. I wonder about the rest of the 3700-some other forum members. In my mind, the real common and binding thread is the pond itself. It just so happens that the most popular by-product is fish and fishing. This makes me wonder what the other pond uses are and who is using and enjoying them for those other reasons. Is it possible that, given a large enough sampling of the pondmeister cross-section, we might find pond-use applications that rival fishing? I say "let's find out". - The final candidates are now prepared for voter selection. The voting booths are about to open. Let's lay out the ground rules: - You are already registered to vote if you own a pond or are seriously contemplating owning a pond.
- A single ballot cast shall consist of your top 5 reasons to own a pond, starting with the most important and descending.
- Each pond you own entitles you to one ballot (consisting of your top 5 reasons). For instance, if you own 3 ponds, the voter is entitled to cast 3 ballots; each with a top 5 list. Please keep multiple ballots separated within the post for ease of tally.
- Make your selections from the available candidates within the Candidate List below. ALWAYS ENTER THE CANDIDATE NUMBER. The precinct captains also like to see the candidate reason following their number, but it is not mandatory (ie; 9 - swimming hole).
- Should the voter be unable to locate his candidate reason within any of the broader categories within the Candidate List, it is acceptable to write in his own candidate. This write-in candidate shall be described as Other (instead of a Candidate Number from the Candidate List), and the voter shall add their own candidate reason (ie; Other - skinny dipping).
- SAMPLE BALLOTPond #1 13 irrigate crops 18 erosion control 1 quality private fishery 10 study aquaculture 5 wildlife for hunting
Pond #2 2 enhance land value 11 water livestock 18 erosion control 23 water for fire fighting Other; racing radio control boats- - OK, there ya go. Enter the booth, pull the curtain, and cast your vote for Why you own a pond. - CANDIDATE LIST1) Quality private fishery 2) To enhance land value 3) Ornamental landscaping 4) Provide affordable and convenient water frontage real estate 5) To attract wildlife for hunting 6) To attract wildlife for viewing and/or preservation 7) Fish hatchery (commercial) 8) Grow-out pond (to raise young fish for transfer) 9) Swimming hole 10) To study aquaculture 11) To study all of nature and/or biology 12) To water livestock 13) To irrigate crops 14) To provide powered water sports (ie; skiing, jetski) 15) To provide non-powered water sports (ie; canoeing, rowing) 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 17) Reduce local insect population (fish eat bugs) 18) Erosion control 19) To create and enjoy the sounds of moving water (ie; waterfall) 20) A family or personal challenge of actually building it 21) A family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem 22) To provide safe, fresh fish as food 23) Water source for fire fighting 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends
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My vote - 4 - affordable water frontage 16 - to provide escape, peace, and relaxation 6 - to attract wildlife for preservation 24 - fun place to gather with family/friends 1 - quality private fishery
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Other) It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid. 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends 1) Quality private fishery 3) Ornamental landscaping
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Pond 1 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends 9) Swimming hole 21) A family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem 11) To study all of nature and/or biology
Pond 2 1) Quality private fishery 10) To study aquaculture 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 8) Grow-out pond (to raise young fish for transfer) 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends
Pond 3 1) Quality private fishery 2) To enhance land value 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 20) A family or personal challenge of actually building it 21) A family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem
I will wait to vote the 2 oxbow lakes and the small unmanaged pond.
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5) To attract wildlife for hunting 1) Quality private fishery 10) To study aquaculture 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends 21) A family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem
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until yesterday my only vote was 16 but i got an ofer from a local seafood co for all the 4 to 8 oz cc i can grow so now it will have to be 16 and 22
FROM RODEO TO STANDIN AROUND WATCHIN THE FISH EAT
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MY VOTE! Pond Under Construction. 1) Quality private fishery 2) To enhance land value 6) To attract wildlife for viewing and/or preservation 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends
Dreaming of the pond!
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I vote yes. Gail votes yes. We have total agreement.
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22) To provide safe, fresh fish as food 23) Water source for fire fighting 13) To irrigate crops 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends 6) To attract wildlife for viewing and/or preservation
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Pond #1 16 Escape, peace, and relaxation 22 Fresh fish for food 12 To water livestock 15 Non-powered water sports 23 Water source for fire fighting
Pond #2 (It's built, it's just not filled yet. Does it get a vote?) 20 Challenge of building 21 Challenge of maintaining 16 Escape, peace, and relaxation 22 Fresh fish for food 12 Water for livestock
"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
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1) # 1 - quality private fishery 2) # 23 - water for fire fighting 3) # 6 - general wildlife attractant 4) # 2 - enhance property value 5) #16 - place to sit and ponder
GSF are people too!
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13.5 acre (we call it a lake)pond. 1 5 9 15 24
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16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation 1) Quality private fishery 24) A fun place to gather with family and friends 2) To enhance land value 3) Ornamental landscaping
You have the world at your fingertips
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1/4 & 3/4 acre ponds. A thousand miles from no where and there is no place I want to be... Dwight Yoakam
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JHAP's vote in more or less the order....
6) To attract wildlife for viewing and/or preservation (being a city boy I really like this benefit). 9) Swimming hole (fun except for the darn biting snails) 1) Quality private fishery (will enjoy this more after some additional fly fishing lessons from DIED) 4) Provide affordable and convenient water frontage real estate (one in which no other property owner can block your view or access). 23) Water source for fire fighting (DIED taught me the value of this).
This was another effect, so far I'm not sure if it's a positive or negative.. 21) A family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem
JWHAP'S (jeff's wife has a pond's) reason... To keep JHAP's mind and imagination somewhat occupied so that he doesn't create more chaos around the household than one relatively sane person can cope with. So far it's not working out that well.
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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16 Escape,peace,relaxation. 1 Quality private fishery 24 Fun place to gather 10 To study aquaculture 8 Grow out pond Built my pond in 1984,still can"t get enough of it!
Last edited by ewest; 09/23/07 06:10 AM.
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1) Quality private fishery 2) To enhance land value 16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise) 4) Provide affordable and convenient water frontage real estate 9) Swimming hole
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16 Escape.
5 Attract wildlife for hunting.
24 Place to gather with family.
Sorry, no other reasons.
Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Dan
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6 Attract wildlife for viewing 16 Provide peace and relaxation 24 A fun place to gather 22 Provide safe fresh fish for food 2 Enhance land value
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First ballot, for my bigger recreational pond named "Big Oliver".
21) A family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem
1) Quality private fishery
24) A fun place to gather with family and friends
16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise)
10) To study aquaculture
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
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Just do it...
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24 - Family/friends 16 - Relaxation 15 - Boating 9 - Swimming/playing 13 - Irrigation
Psalm 24:1-2
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And, just for the heck of it
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Its not how well you do something, Its how well you look doing it!
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There are so many reasons from the list like 1 and 24 ...etc for me but you missed the most important one that is not on your list. Thus I will add it here: 25. Because I do not have the money or land to own a Lake!!!
Last edited by Eric; 09/24/07 06:48 AM.
--------------------------------- 1/10 - 1/4 acre pond plus 16 ft deep/ Plus 40 ft by 20 ft by 6 ft deep koi and fathead minnow pond next to it. Upstate NY
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Koi
by PAfarmPondPGH69, October 22
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