South Dakota's watershed impairment worsening

Honestly, I don't give one shit about what happens East River: it's already been destroyed.

Rapid City environmental lawyer David Ganje does work for the South Dakota Farmers Union.

In this opinion piece I discuss the legislature’s animal waste pipeline bill. The bill as written was untouched by human thought. HB 1184 was fortunately killed in committee. Be assured, however, another animal waste pipeline bill will return in the next legislative session dressed in different garb. One legislator has publically [sic] stated he will craft another bill with the same goal. If history is a guide, I suggest the promised new animal waste pipeline bill will have a good number of the same failings as the killed bill.

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What do you expect when earth hater Eldon Roth of Beef Products, Inc. is South Dakota's fattest donor?

Ranchers and farmers who pump aquifers to water hay crops are running out of hay again after giving it to other ag welfare recipients last Spring. That's not self-reliance; it's moral hazard.

Coring samples taken from Lake Mitchell in February revealed the volume of sediment laden with algae-producing phosphorus may be up to eight times what was earlier estimated, throwing a $7.2 million estimate for a lake cleanup project into question. The early estimates said about 250,000 cubic yards of the lake would need to be dredged, but preliminary information from the February study show the total is closer to 2 million cubic yards.

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Senator Mike Rounds (earth hater-SD) is not only freaking out the US Army Corps of Engineers are punishing him for his lawsuit blaming the military for 2011 flooding he's telling voters it's okay that South Dakota is a dumping ground for the ag and livestock industries.

Yes, he's calling out "activist interest groups" er, an "environmental activist group" for the court ruling upholding the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).

West River can still be saved.

So, the question remains: should rewilding efforts seek to restore sustainable wild lands to Pleistocene Era conditions or let the Anthropocene lay waste desertifying precious resources changing the landscape forever leaving survivors to cleave out habitable zones forsaking native species?

Dispelling the myth that South Dakota is a private property state - https://t.co/LEzkDakBEc

— David Ganje (@DavidGanjeLaw) March 2, 2018