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In here or we're still have to go

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to it right? We got to go too.

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Where we're going is

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their land right here,

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straight across from us,

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the cabin that you see on

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the hill here is

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a two season

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cabin.

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They built a home over here.

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This is their summer residence

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where Wayne,

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who I don't even know how old Wayne

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is, maybe 88,

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where he grew up and spent

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his summer.

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So here we started about

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at their

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cabin.

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We don't cut trees down so they get

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a better view.

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We cut the trees that provide fish

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habitat.

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We used to ask for

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hardwoods,

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and now pretty much wood in

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the water helps fish.

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So, you know, if

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you put poplars in...

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So there we

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cut down that birch.

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We've cut this tree here.

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This is a pine.

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We cut that.

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It's chained to the stump.

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So we did this 43

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times along this

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one mile of shoreline.

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So you can see the birch on

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the shore.

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Probably didn't chain that one

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because it's sitting on the shore

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and actually it looks great.

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So this not

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only provides excellent

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habitat.

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Invertebrates, little fish, big

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fish, turtles,

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wood ducks.

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But if you're a decent fisherman,

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this is a good place to go fish.

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This particular bay has a lot of

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crappies, so the crappie fishermen

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should be

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well, I'm gonna give it a try and

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tell you how it goes.

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You really wouldn't know that these

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were all deliberately cut.

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No. I mean, they look somewhat

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natural.

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Um,

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underbrush.

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New trees are going to cover

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everything up. You won't even know

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it.

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If you go to a place that's...

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There may be

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up to 200 trees

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in the water per mile,

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where we

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cut everything down

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to the water and

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then let it

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grow up, but it doesn't have,

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the forest is not old enough to

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drop trees into the water.

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So we used to put fish sticks in,

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which we do in the wintertime, but

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it takes two skid steers.

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The guy's trained well enough with

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a chainsaw to

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cut the tree down.

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From the DNR,

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from zoning, you know,

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zoning is probably harder.

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Law or

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the rule that

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you can't cut.

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So is that like

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a county permitting or like a lake

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association permitting?

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Myself and another guy are

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in the walleye project.

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We get our money from the lake, but

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I'm not on board,

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so we

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commit ourselves

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to our names on it.

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And the DNR wants

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before and after victory, so I've

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got to take that into consideration.

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Oh, yeah,

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it sucks.

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The ends are coming around.

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Any dad with

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a daughter or a son,

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he's got to be able to look at this

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and say, hey, let's try this.

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I'll put the nature down and

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throw a bobber in real

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quick.

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So this goes for

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a mile and

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there's a big marsh over

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beyond this point which I'm

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not going to take you through.

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And then there's more shoreline

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in Bluegill Bay that we've cut

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through.

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So we

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have 26 more.

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Shoreline owners that

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are now officially permitted and

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we will contact

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them and then cut the

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trees.

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We got happening this year.

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I don't even want to wait till

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winter. There's some really,

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uh, you know, some of the people

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are, are just summer people and

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you have to sort of get them now.

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The good part about this, I was

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worried that the ice would shove the

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wood.

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Once we freeze again this

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year, that ice is going to push

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all of these logs down into

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the surf and they'll never move.

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They'll just slowly

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rot away.

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Was this all done?

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That's good.

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You know, when I was watching

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the wind, when the ice

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came out, and I thought,

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you know, I sure hope

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the ice doesn't push all of the

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logs, and it didn't.

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It's just perfect.

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So that's what Greg Sass.

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Semi wild we

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can do that and we have a number of

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homeowners that don't mow to

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the water's edge that

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have asked for fish sticks or woody

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structure and so we have another

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26 locations

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and once we accomplish that

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then we're going to really open it

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up

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and provide some definition

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and see if we could get

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maybe a couple hundred.

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Maybe you'd get a hundred trees in

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the water. That would be phenomenal.

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And if you have that on

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44 miles of shoreline...

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You know, those are places for

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everybody to fish.

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Lots of, so Yellow

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Perch, for example,

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put their eggs on

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woody structure.

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They lay a little tube of

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eggs. So they need something firm

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to, and Yellow Perches is

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the number one bait fish

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in this lake.

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So over here,

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a pretty good example of how Swift,

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a little bit of wood between the

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neighbors and then they've got their

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moat cleared path.

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So I would just say, hey, can we

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drop one or two of those trees that

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are in between us?

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Are they going to qualify or is it

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that I could do that?

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Okay, you give them that.

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But, you know, the guy who just

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built the black home or the

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charcoal-colored home, and he's

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got, luckily, he did

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put that black barrier,

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but you can see

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that that property

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has been mowed right to

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the bottom.

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And that one tree off

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to his right, our

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left, he'd say, gee, I'd like

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you to drop that in the water.

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I'd say no, I'm not doing that.

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Why don't you stop mowing and

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plant? So I mean, that's.

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Put it between these houses over

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here. There's that little space

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right there. We could drop, you

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know, one or two trees.

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And I get

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my pontoon and I get

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Nate Thomas, our biologist.

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And we go by property owners who

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have requested.

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And, you, know, Nate and I both look

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up, no, yep, no.

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And decide.

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So this guy,

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nice home, I congratulate

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him.

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Before those two trees in the middle

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are cut down because they're

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blocking his view.

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That's right I'm not gonna cut them.

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So he'd say hey, can you cut that

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oak right there?

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And I'm gonna go no You

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can't cut that.

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Oh

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Is it within 30?

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Five feet of the water.

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So the zoning will say

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you can't cut anything

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from the shoreline to

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35 feet.

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So that has to stay.

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And unfortunately, I see

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people that just do it anyhow.

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And I go, wow, that's

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really unfortunate.

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I think I did it with Marina

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and my wife.

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We bought our place just because we

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did. So we're taking it out for a

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walk.

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Now, we didn't cut any of our

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trees, but we trimmed off

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a few. Yeah.

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So the thing you want to do, you're

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going to get this guy here.

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So, bro, what do I do?

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I say, bro.

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So what do you do?

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Thanks for watching!