[calinet6]

It's one thing if you own the land and do everything right, including following regulations and correctly managing the land... another if you're dicing and slicing haphazardly and especially modifying waterways, which are a very complicated ecological and ownership maze, especially in California.

Thanks to one environmental science class I took, I know for example that erosion upstream, even slightly as they've done here can modify the downstream water quality significantly, and have an impact on whole populations of fish and wildlife. They had no right to do what they did, even if they thought the regulations were pointless or dumb. They are not.