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[-] $1.6 Million penalty for a bit of brush clearing you could do on a Sunday afternoon - Slade Smith/OH (2 replies)
1/26/2012 4:55:49 PM (6564 views)
Re: $1.6 Million penalty for a bit of brush clearing you could do on a Sunday afternoon - James Powell/MI
1/27/2012 8:39:22 AM (5349 views)
Re: $1.6 Million penalty for a bit of brush clearing you could do on a Sunday afternoon - Slade Smith/OH
1/27/2012 3:17:40 PM (8543 views)

I think the low, shrubby stuff is mangrove too.  Mangrove can appear to be shrubby or tree-like;  I think they counted all the shrubs as trees.  There certainly weren't 100+ full blown trees removed if the picture is showing the extent of what was removed.

I undertstand the environmental imperative to protect mangroves; but that fine is far too high for the removal of such a small amount of them.  A brief googling for other instances of illegal mangrove cutting reveal that this fine is far out of line with what others have had to pay for similar violations, for example:

Condo nets $1450 fine for cutting mangroves

Fiddler's Green Condominium Association must plant 324 trees-- three for every one cut.

Fiddler's Green Condominium Association will have to pay $1450 in penalties for trimming 108 mangroves along Lemon Creek in Placida

Florida Department of Environmental Protection recently sent the association a letter outlining corrective measures the association must take to restore mangroves that spanned 675 square feet of shoreline.

...

The mangroves, which ranged from 8 to 15 feet tall, were cut to about 18 inches, which will probably kill the trees' roots...

So,here we have a case where almost exactly the same number of mangroves was cut, but the fine is less than 1/1000th as much! 

What if a community created an ordinance that established fines for speeding that were 1000 times as much as an average speeding ticket?  Would that be fair for someone to get a $200,000 speeding ticket, just because they got caught speeding in the wrong place?

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[+] Filing Suit for Non-Payment Outside Your State - HOW? - Kym/NJ (8 replies)
1/25/2012 9:38:42 AM (4088 views)

[+] Two additions to the web site - Slade Smith/OH (2 replies)
1/25/2012 6:04:09 AM (4088 views)

[+] Comment on "Southern Essex MA Recorder of Deeds Calls for Criminal Investigation" - Source of Title/OH (5 replies)
1/23/2012 11:45:19 AM (4463 views)

[+] Why Not Just Pay Me? - Dianne Barnidge/MS (14 replies)
1/22/2012 8:42:14 PM (4759 views)


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