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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/10/wyoming-welder-facing-16m-in-fines-beats-epa-in-battle-over-stock-pond.html?intcmp=hpbt2

What a decent ending for a story I have closely watched. Another case of the federal government over-reaching and getting slapped for it. I won't call this case a win, as the feds did require willows to be planted and a livestock fence to be built on PRIVATE PROPERTY, after the stock pond that they claimed wasn't a stock pond turned out to be a stock pond! Kudos to a family who refused to be bullied by out-of-touch bureaucrats following a agenda paid for by the radical environmental movement. Can you imagine if this stock pond happened to be full of 300 million gallons of toxic mine waste and it was dumped into the Colorado river basin? Bet the landowner would have served decades in prison. Oh wait, but didn't this same agency do EXACTLY that? And the punishment was...........................??? $300,000 of blankets and beads for the Navajo Nation to smooth things over. But they wanted 16 MILLION for a family that built a stock pond on their own property? What an absolute embarrassment our federal government agencies tasked with "saving the west" have become!!!
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