[competentone]

In the late 1970's when all the "wet lands" legislation was being enacted, my parents had 7 lots on Lake Michigan -- they had purchased them a few years earlier for investment reasons.

An owner of some of the neighboring land was filling his property (it wasn't "swamp" but just low land) and warned my parents that they had better take action with their land if they wanted it to maintain its value. The neighbor was a lot more "tuned in" to the political changes than my parents were.

Unfortunately my parents didn't take the neighbor's advice. My mother sold the land in the 1990s for a fraction of what the lake-front property should have been worth. The government deemed that there was one buildable site on all seven lots; the rest of it was "protected" wet lands that could not be disturbed.

The environmental-terrorists are willing to protect the "rights" of every living creature, except for the rights of humans!

With this case in NC, I'm glad to see people taking action -- as best they can -- to try to maintain their rights to their property.