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How ‘Wetlands’ threaten freedom

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What is a “wetland”?This is not a trick question, but it is important that we get it right.

It is the key to an issue that goes to the very core of what constitutes a free country: the right to own and control property.

Most reasonable people would give a simple answer to that simple question: A “wetland” is a wet land – land that is under water at least most of the time. When people think of wetlands they see bogs, marshes and swamps. It’s as simple as what the definition of “is” is, or so it would seem. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Jane Chastain

June 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Posted in Environmentalism