[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by MathGeek

Actually, a person had to OWN the wetland to do anything with it. After DU, they needed the federal government's permission to do what they wanted with their OWN property.

Because it is affecting people downstream! Its bigger than that little parcel of land, it affects all of us. I don't want someone upstream to be able to build a building and run the sewer directly into the stream on HIS property because it will affect all of us. Should he be able to get a 55 gallon drum of used diesel and pour it in HIS creek? No thank god.

One can pass laws that reasonably restrict uses of land that might adversely impact neighbors without requiring landowners to obtain federal permission for just about any development or improvement.

Then run for Congress or Senate and get this done, this is bigger than Ducks Unlimited or CCA

And how the congressional authority to "regulate interstate commerce" got twisted into the authority to require landowners in a given state to get permission from the federal government to develop their own property is beyond me.

Ask your Senator or Congressperson, this is definitely not an issue with DU or CCA

The regulation of private land to minimize negative impact on neighboring properties should have remained a state issue rather than a federal power grab.

Obviously Ducks Unlimited AND CCA were a HUGE part of this

Regarding lead shot, the science showed that ducks ingesting the lead shot in certain types of habitat was killing the ducks. Reasonable, science based regulation would have banned the use of lead shot for hunting in those kinds of habitat.

Banning use of lead shot in corn fields was an overreach that did not have scientific support.

Because no one floods corn fields and hunts waterfowl over them except the entire midwest and waterfowl will readily dry feed in a dry corn field, so there is that also

You can have study after study after study, but common sense takes over after a while. You have got to know that lead is an extremely toxic element, and it has been proven hundreds of times that birds die from lead ingestion.

Criminalizing previously enjoyed liberties should be narrowly tailored to meet the scientific requirements that demonstrate the need without overreaching infringements that restrict liberties in ways that are not demonstrated with the scientific data.

You should put that as your mission statement on your non-profit organization you are starting