What would you do as Governor about wetlands?

Question

You are elected governor of the state of California (congratulations!). As such, one of the many things you will have to do is decide how to manage competing needs of your constituents. In the Northern Central Valley there is a growing difficulty among farmers and environmentalists over continuing loss of wetlands.

How will you make compromises among the needs of waterfowl (for quality habitat) the needs of farmers (economic reasons) and the needs of the populace (food).

Should efforts be made to restore wetland habitat and return waterfowl populations to the numbers that were seen in the 1970s?

If restoration should happen, which lands should be converted to waterfowl-supporting wetland? What resources should be used?

Answer 1

The farmers have absolutely no right to destroy the wetlands, they are being totally selfish, as well as the public for not doing anything about it. There is no need to make compromises, the community needs to worry about conserving the wetlands. The animals and plants have done nothing wrong, maybe there should be a two child limit in California to keep populations down. Overall, we need to put a two child limit all over the world so we can reduce our massively overpopulated species. I know this is off topic, but the reason we have starvation and other crisis' like that is because the world is massively over populated by humans, the destructive species, and we need to stop hogging the world, and we need to have a two or one child limit each. That really is the only answer, unless you want to live on the moon. The human race has no right to take over the world, and push it's boundaries in to the last wild places on earth. We need to stop focusing on ourselves, and we need to stop being so selfish. Let the wetlands live.

Answer 2

Pave them and put up the worlds biggest Walmart

Answer 3

the first thing that needs to be done about wetlands is the selection process it is based on soil types and this is not an accurate way to determine wetlands big nickel makes some very good points in his answer tax credits for those who own wetlands i agree with most eveything he said except about the freeze on wetlands that already exist you can't drain wetlands now unless they were farmed prior to 1985 this is for lily k i am sure you dont own a farm or even been on a farm and the last time i checked we live in a free country and when i we as farmers purchase land it belongs to us not you stop complaining about the farmer with your mouth full lily k knows nothing about conservation or she would know that farmers contribute more to conservation than anyone else this is for going cranky i am with you let them buy the wetlands i own some that i would be happy to sell them so i could stop paying taxes on it

Answer 4

wetlands need to be saved they are the natural filtration of surface water to the aquifer and the natural reservoir for ground water

1)Since it would be hard to return farm land to wet land I would impose a immediate land freeze on any new development of wet lands.

2)do an aerial and satellite survey of the areas to confirm present state of the wetlands for a reference

3)provide very lucrative tax credits for land owners to preserve wetlands(money talks)

4)encourage the rain harvesting and recycling of irrigation water and the prevention of farm land run of into the natural water courses and wet lands

5)have a water management team /investigators to do inspections of farms for abuses in water use age

Answer 5

If the environmentalist care so much, let them buy the land

Answer 6

I'd dig them out and make lakes and sell the dirt to pay down the debt. Swamps suck.