19 September 2013
Drove back to Fern
Lake to attend (with Marty) the Vermont Legislature’s Lake Shoreland Protection
Commission Hearing in Middlebury. Except
it weren’t no “hearing”, unless you count the audience hearing a sales pitch
from the Commission leaders and the Vermont Agency for Natural Resources as to
why extensive new restrictions on lake shore development (and new bureaucracy)
are needed to protect the quality of lakes and ponds that are mostly in
excellent condition, except for Eurasian milfoil infestations… and the proposed
new rules wouldn’t address that issue.