You are right about the scorn for perceived stupidity in the recovery efforts. I should be ashamed. I guess you could say it is kind of an inside joke that nobody except maybe @Lassio Cravensworth, or whatever he's calling himself, would get.
You see, this riparian zone is in fact a greenway...
It may get a lot worse soon. I have an 11-year-old grandson who is the world's greatest authority on everything dinosaur. Just ask him he'll tell you. Those paleontologists with their silly little PHDs aren't even fit to carry his lunch pail. He has informed me that he is going to build a real...
Right after the fire there was nothing but dead trees and ash left. It looked like there would never be life there again. As of last fall the cottonwoods were 15' to 20' tall. The willows 10' to 15' and all the shrubs, forbs and grasses fully recovered. Then in that 1/4 mile stretch that they...
This is my whole point. To my untrained eye the efforts to fix the fire damage are causing far more damage than the fire damage itself. And the areas left untouched are recovering extremely rapidly all on their own.
Another case of loving nature to death.
There was another similar project 15 years ago. Those flags are faded and rotting but they are still there.
You or I throw a gum wrapper on the ground and it's a $500 fine. Go figure?
We all know the importance of riparian zones along our streams and rivers, so when a human caused fire devastates several miles of a riparian zone, immediate action must be taken.
So, what to do. First you create a committee of uninformed, ignorant people to organize the restoration efforts...
Yeah, I had the unfortunate task of informing a landowner that he had built his brand-new fence to a witness corner and was 100 ft. on to public land. People never seem take that kind of news without wanting to fight.
I'm no lawyer but if a landowner destroyed a survey monument, I would think he would have as a hard a time claiming you trespassed as you would have claiming you didn't.
Unless he admitted to destroying the corner. Which is a crime.
I spent most of my life surveying public lands and I can tell you that the government does not survey land on the request of private citizens. The government surveys the land to facilitate their own land management projects. This is mainly due to time and money, things the FS and BLM are...
Not on public land. There is no "Adverse Possession" of public land.
One thing landowners could do is put the corner posts of their fences 4" from the center of the corner monument on both private portions of land. Leaving an 8" gap for corner crossers to try and squeeze through. I know I...
I worked in the woods all my life and I know a lot have caught me pissing.😁 Four have caught me saluting the camera totally nude. Well, not totally, I always kept my hat on. (The nudes weren't while working, I could never convince the rest of the crew to go quite that far. No sense of humor.)
I...