It's that time of year!
I stepped out of the back door this morning on my way to work and heard the sound of a lamb calling to its mom. My wife texted me saying the ewe had not delivered her second lamb yet; so the cries I ...
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rockhillmanor wrote:
I ran into DNR on my farm when I rerouted a small creek on my property for the horses. You would have thought I rerouted the Mississippi they had such a fit about it.
Is that stream part of any drinking water source?
First - Mark - I love your involvement with cleaning up your watershed (even if it's a PITA)!
Rock - if you're implying it's OK to pollute unless it's a source of drinking water - it goes WAAAY beyond that. These tiny creeks and Ag Drains feed larger bodies of water, etc and everything is connected in a giant food chain of healthy water (including clean water for recreation). I KNOW it's a PITA to provide drinking water for livestock when it's literally available nonstop; but there might be kids swimming in a waterhole a mile downstream. I've been working for a few years now, at cleaning up an Ag Drain that consistently delivered E-coli (and all it's nastier friends) into our beautiful lake for decades. The farmers in the watershed have fenced their animals off the creek; and are now more careful fertilizing... and we've seen the E-coli counts cut in half! Now we're going after some folks who *might* be treating the creek like a septic tank.... (grrrrr!) and we might have the problem licked.
Sorry to go off-topic, but I was thrilled to see Mark's efforts to clean up a watershed highlighted! Yeah - I'm pretty passionate about clean water....LOL!
