Thank you, Cindy, for illustrating my point so eloquently. And placing  
it all in perspective.

Lyle


On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:08 p, Cindy Hildebrand wrote:

> I just finished sending new comments to the DNR on the proposed  
> antidegradation rules.  Thinking about and writing those comments  
> required me to think about my water quality experiences in Iowa  
> during the past thirty years.  Doing that was a definite reminder  
> that when it comes to Iowa environmental policies, I'd rather have a  
> little progress than no progress.  And then I fully reserve the  
> right to keep pointing out that a little progress is not enough and  
> that we need more.
>
> Also, in my county, we recently had a CAFO permit situation in which  
> one of the specific frustrations of the neighbors was that they had  
> no official forum and no way to officially record their objections  
> and make sure those objections were put on the DNR record.  I admit  
> to some bias because I know two of the neighbors who expressed those  
> frustrations in the local paper.
>
> I am in favor of supporting HSB 168 as one small step forward.    
> Small, but forward.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> Cindy Hildebrand
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> 57439 250th St.
> Ames, IA  50010
>
> "Then as to scenery...while I know the standard claim is that  
> Yosemite, Niagara Falls, and the upper Yellowstone and the like,  
> afford the greatest natural shows, I am not sure but the Prairies  
> and Plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill  
> the aesthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North  
> America's characteristic landscape." (Walt Whitman)

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