I farmed in partnership with my father for 20 years along the Rock River. We quit pasturing our cattle because of upstream problems that took years to fix.
If I had a radioactive cache that was making cachers sick and die, would you send me a polite e-mail, to give me a chance to “fix” it? Or would you contact the authorities before I fled the country?!
Comparing manure run-off to a cache problem is like comparing apples to giraffes.
Zuma happened to be a cacher that saw the problem. It could have been a nun or a grade school kid. I applaud him for asking for input before confronting a farmer that might be 3-4 weeks behind in his farm work, due to this long winter and wet spring. NONE of us is qualified to approach the landowner on a federal violation of stream contamination!
But if zuma would like to send the ‘devils advocate’ the address of the farmer, feel free to drive from Kenosha to wherever and tell the farmer to fix his crappy problem.
Let me know when your going. I’ll bring my lawn chair and a bag of popcorn, to watch the fireworks!
