By Dan Bell, president of the Arizona Cattle Growers’ Association
Arizona Capitol Times
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.)
Once again the bright lights are shown on the caricature of the federal government regulating everything from cradle to grave – only this time it is from stock pond to ditch.
With the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule to expand the definition of the “Waters of the United States” to the stock ponds on our ranches and to the ditches on our farms by removing the word “navigable” from these Clean Water Act regulations, we experience Big Brother’s appetite for controlling everything – from your smartphone texts, to your Internet service – to our stock ponds.
