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Langrrr@aol.com wrote:
> 

> > By the way, what will happen when all the swamps are drained for
> short term
> > economic gain?
> 
> If that is a threat, then simply condemn the land and take it for
> public use.
> 
> Otherwise, what will happen is simple:  if the hydrological values are
> lost, then some other means will have to be found for replacing them
> (if that is necessary).  These artificial means will cost quite a bit,
> and these same people who have been benefiting from the short term gain
> of draining the wetlands will pay through the noses in their increased
> taxes.
> 
The problem that I see with such an answer is that the drained and
developed land will quickly be sold to someone else - and the higher
taxes to maintain or replace the hydrologic values will not fall on the
persons who created the damage or profited from it.

				Doug Dewing