UP / Thumb of Michigan | mac4440 - 10/28/2023 11:17
If it's not a wetland and you don't participate in farm programs, not much anyone can say about it
Not quite true. FSA won't be participating in the investigation if not in the farm programs. State and Federal Governments get involved real quick.
For example: Locally, a Menards wanted to build in a wetland. Mitigation was 10 acres of new wetland built for every one filled in. It took 10 years after they opened the doors to complete the plan.
Meijers Grocery store had the same mitigation process, but I'm not aware of what the mitigation worked out to. They did create a pretty large wetland behind the store for starters.
In that same neighborhood, a private land owner had a large tract of land, with lots of wetlands on it. He decided it was his by golly, he wasn't asking anyone what he could do with his own land. And I understand that sentiment. His issue was he got caught out there with the dozer. Long story short, the land is almost worthless now. Putting stuff back to what the Guv wants is going to be EXTREMLY expensive. I looked at it after it got listed for sale, my second stop doing my due diligence was at the local NRCS. Thats when my interest in the parcel ended. Big black mark on the deed, and the NRCS seemed to believe that either the DNR, the DEQ, the NRCS, and a couple other Government acronyms had plenty of teeth to at least screw up a deal for a lot of years.
https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/egle/Documents/Pro...
And people pay attention to them apparently,
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L6176823
Edited by pat-michigan 3/28/2025 07:33
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clearing land to farm?
