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We're still have to go to it, right?

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We've got to go to it, okay.

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Where we're going is their land right here.

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Straight across from us.

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The cabin that you see on the hill here,

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is a two season cabin.

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They built the home over here.

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This is their summer residence where we

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grew up and spent the summer.

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So here we started about at their cabin.

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We don't cut trees down so they get a better view.

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We cut the trees that provide fish habitat.

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They're certain to ask for hardwoods,

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and now pretty much wood in the water helps fish.

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So, you know, if you put poplars in,

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you put the pine in there,

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and it goes right past through the anything else.

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So there we cut down that birch.

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We've got this tree here.

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This is a pine.

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So we cut that. It's chained to the stump.

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So we did this 43 times along this one mile of shoreline.

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So you can see the birch on the shore.

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Probably didn't chain that one because it's sitting on the shore.

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Actually, it looks pretty.

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This is not only provides excellent habitat,

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invertebrates, little fish, big fish, turtles, wood ducks.

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But if you're a decent fisherman,

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it's a good place to go fish.

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This particular bay has a lot of properties.

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So the property fisherman should be...

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You really wouldn't know that these were all deliberately cut.

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No.

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They look somewhat natural.

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There's so much underbrush

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that new trees are going to cover everything up.

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We won't even know.

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We could go to a place that's

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there may be up to 200 trees in the water per mile.

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There we cut everything down to the water.

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And then let it grow up, but it doesn't have...

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The forest is not old enough to drop trees in 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 it takes two skidsters.

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Here, the guys trained well enough

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where the chainsaw kept the tree down.

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Now, take it from the DNR.

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From the DNR, from zoning.

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You know, zoning is probably harder.

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It takes three dollars.

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There's a law or the rule of zoning.

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But you can't cut it.

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You get a nice little...

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So is that like a county permitting or like a lake association permitting?

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Well...

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Myself and another guy are the walleyes.

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We get our money from the lake.

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And I'm not on board.

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So we permit ourselves.

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Our name is Adam.

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And the DNR wants to be four and a half of the trees.

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So I like the 50 trees.

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I don't know if this sucks.

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And then...

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So that...

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It's just a little...

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Any dad with a daughter or a son?

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He's got to be able to look at this and say,

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this is probably just looking at you down there.

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Bobber in real fish.

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So this goes for a bile.

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And there's a big marsh over

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beyond this point.

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And then there's more shoreline than a bluegill bay that you cut trees.

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So we have

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26 more

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shoreline ponies that are now officially permitted

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in the real contact environment.

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We've got to have some of this here.

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I don't even want to wait until winter.

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There's some really...

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Some of the people are just summer people.

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And we have to really get them now.

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The good part about this, I was worried that the ice would shovel the wood.

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Once we freeze again this year,

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that ice is going to push all of these logs down

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and then it's going to be removed.

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They'll just slowly rot away.

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So, was this all done not get in?

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You know, when I was watching the wind,

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when the ice came out, and I thought, you know,

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I sure hope the ice doesn't push all of the logs.

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And it didn't. It's just perfect.

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So, we can do that. And we have the number of

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homeowners that don't mow to the water's edge

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that have asked for fish sticks or woody structure.

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And so we have another 26 locations.

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And once we accomplish that, then we're going to really

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open it up and provide some definition

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and see if we could get maybe a couple hundred.

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Maybe you'd get a hundred trees in the water.

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That would be phenomenal. And if you have that

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on 44 miles of shoreline,

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you know, those are places for everybody to fish.

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Lots of, so yellow perch, for example

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for their eggs on woody structure.

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They lay a little tube of eggs. So they need something

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for them. And yellow perch is number one bait fish.

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In this lake. So over here,

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pretty good example of cows with a little bit of wood

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between the neighbors. And if they've got their mold clear path.

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So I was just saying, hey, can we drop one or two of those trees that are in the field?

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So they get a claw fire and that, I could do that.

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Okay, you give them that, try to do that.

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They're just built the black home or the charcoal colored home.

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And he's got, luckily he did put the, that black barrier

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in the trap. But you can see that

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that property has been mowed right to the bottom.

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And that one tree off to his right are

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left. He'd say, gee, I'd like you to drop that in the water.

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And not to adapt. Why don't you stop mowing

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the plant. So I mean, that's gonna be between

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these houses over here. There's that little space right there. We could drop

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one or two trees. And I

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give my pontoon and I get Nate Thomas, our biologist.

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And we go by property owners who have requested

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and Nate and I both look up. No. Yep. No.

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And decide who can.

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So this guy, nice home. I congratulate him.

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But man,

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that would be for those two trees in the middle are cut down because they're blocking his view.

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That's right. I'm not gonna cut down. So he'd say, hey, can you cut that

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oak right there? And I'm gonna go, no. You can't cut that

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oak. So, I said within

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35 feet of the water? So the zoning will say

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you can't cut anything from shoreline to 35 feet.

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So that has to stay. And

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you know, unfortunately I see people that just do it anyhow

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and I go, wow, that's really unfortunate.

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Now, we didn't cut any of our trees.

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Yeah, so the thing you want to view, you're just gonna hear some room.

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What are you doing?

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I'm gonna show you where you can see the water.

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I'm gonna use the guy.

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I'm gonna use the guy.