Dynamite?

[Deadwood]

I have only been to court twice in my life. The second time was for my divorce. The first time was for ripping out a beaver dam.

The fine was only 2500 bucks, but the attorney fees were 9 grand. Ask me if it was worth it and I will tell you this...NO!!

We were putting in a logging road so we could harvest 400 acres that had not been cut since the 1930's.As I bobbed around in the courts, the landowner grew tired of waiting, and I watched as another logging contractor got the right permits, built the road and clearcut the woodlot.

As for dynamite and blasting caps, you can find that anywhere around here if you know where to look. My Uncle had just sold his house and we were in his old barn when the new homeowner said his boys had ADHD. That was when I said "well you don't want this then." I reached up in the rafters and pulled down a box of blasting caps and some boxes of dynamite. I threw them in my truck but did not give it much thought until I went into walmart one day. Here i had a couple of boxes of dynamite and blasting caps right in my passengers seat and thought what would happen if someone saw the boxes with "Dynamite" written all over it.So I covered them up with a shirt and later stored them eleswhere I could just imagine coming out of the store and having my truck surrounded by the ATF, the swat team and the bomb squad.

[LOGDOG]

Deadwood,

    That's quite the story. I bet it really chapped you to lose out on that timber and then have all those fines and such to boot. Down here the nutria and the beaver are viewed like rats. In fact I think there's still a bounty on them. (Nutria looks like a beaver with a rats tail. Kinda like a muskrat on steroids for you northern folks.)

    We flooded out here at my place on about 25 acres this last weekend. Our house is well above the flood zone but there's a bottom between the two ridges that floods. Even with the two dams in there right now it drained within 3 days. The larger problem is down below me. It backs water up on me. If I were to say block this bayou off and back water up on my neighbors upstream I'd be breaking the law and could be held liable for any damage to their property. Let the beavers do it though and it's just "nature". Personally I'd like to see a crew go down the length of this bayou all the way to the lake and trap the beaver out and then blow the dams. The state must not feel it's worth the money. So instead, they decided about 3 years ago to build a water retention pond about 1/4 mile downstream from me to protest this subdivision from flooding. Levy flanks the bayou with a subdivision on the other side on a hill. Two big spiral pumps to pump the water over the levy. They spent like 2.45 million dollars on it and I don't think the spiral pumps have run once.  Amazing what they will appropriate money for.


LOGDOG