People are just so used to having people who claim to be *experts* telling them what to think and do, they don't know how to turn it off.
ODFW, the USFW, and various and assorted other illegal agencies are real big on fining and imprisoning people who dare to use water, or have livestock, or mine, or fish, or collect water on their own land...and they are real quick to engage in the very practices they will not allow us to engage in.
The Bundys were fined and dragged to jail and accused of damaging the refuge because they pooped outside (since there was no running water in the facility, thanks to the brilliance of the feds)...meanwhile, the feds rolled over the so-called artifacts..and ignored the fact that the refuge had moldering heaps of explosives that the feds used to blast in the reservoir...killing everything....because they had INTRODUCED CARP to the reservoir some years ago..which are EATING ALL THE BABY BIRDS.
Environmentalists are a blight upon the earth. I wish they would all die painfully of aids.