Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Bush Administration Reverses Wetlands Decline - If Golf Courses Count

“. . . the feds just redefined ‘wetland’ to include, yes, sewage ponds, ponds created to grow fish or water cattle, and all those barren or cattail-choked ponds dug out to collect human-generated runoff. You see these runoff ponds along highways, near shopping malls, in golf courses and in suburban developments. Now they are all being counted as ‘wetlands.’" How to explain the new increase in wetlands? Just count anything wet by Judy Helgen, Star Tribune That allowed them to show an increase in wet lands while native wet lands actually decreased.
Golf, of courses, also pollutes with pesticides & fertilizer and guzzles scarce water resources. For more on golf see, Augusta, the Masters, and Golf In General - What Happened To Your Noble Roots?

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