"Ken Fortenberry" wrote


Dairy farmers in southern Wisconsin/Minnesota have made great strides,
with the help of TU and forward thinking folks at the respective DNRs,



Thanks for mentioning that, Ken


Actually, when I re-read my post I feared that it would be taken as
anti-cattleMAN by some ... and it isn't

I think the last 20 years has seen great strides nearly everywhere by
ranchers and farmers to mitigate their occupation's negative impacts on
environment.

Even in the water-poor West we see more and more Ag land users volunteering
to change water uses for better efficiency, for instance.
( Not to mention ranchers setting aside easements for permanent fisherman
access such as has occurred on the Madison. Ranchers can be our best
friends, too http://tinyurl.com/343bak )

One thing 'environmentalists' need to understand is that whole industries
are not (often) the enemy, rather the uninformed, uncaring, practitioners of
nearly all industries are. We are ALL on this planet together, ALL like to
eat, ALL want to drive our cars. We need to, and increasing are, ALL work
together, realizing compromize is part of the deal ... for ALL