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> "He "cleaned it up" to make it look "pretty". (his words, not mine)"
>
> I don't know what to say other than that makes me mad.
This is Georgia, which is hell bent on subdividing and destroying
everything. Our local government helps the developers. The subdivision
on my N property line will dump all it's wastewater from 20 acres of
subdivision across my land, with the help of the county who would not
even listen to me or any of my neighbors. All I can do is sue when
damages occur.
Actually there I've been toying with putting in a dam and growing
mosquitoes and poisonous snakes for the city folks to enjoy. And they
would provide the water.
Folks go all kind of environmentally active about distant places, but
few do so about their own area. As long as that does not change, there
is little hope.
> "I live just about 1/4 mile upstream from there, I've been excavating a
> small pool in my creek bottomlands to help the displaced frogs ever
> since that happened. Hundreds of southern leopard frogs are emerging
> from there right now, and last time I was down the water was covered
> with gray treefrog eggs. With the drought I have to go down and pump
> water into it at least every week. The frogs hardly allow me to work on
> it so expansion is going slowly."
>
> GOOD FOR YOU MAN! I think that's great, I would be there in a second to h=
elp if I was near there. Keep up the good work Walt! Just wanted to speak u=
p and give you a hand shake.
My tractor is a bit small for such work. But I do have a backhoe and
front loader for it. Takes moving a huge amount of soil. Each year it
grows in size. Won't ever be near as big as the swamp however, that had
a spring to feed it.
Walt
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