There's a lot of pressure for farmers. You want to retire, so you sell off the land, and the highest bidders are developers.

Some of the most-producing farmland is being changed over from agricultural to residential. We're not always using the land the best way.

Rather than letting the next subdivision be on the next farmer's field, try to figure out ways to incorporate it in an existing city.

The big issue is water.

Informing property owners whether a proposed use of their land is legal shouldn't be controversial, though this is abhorrent to elitists within the environmental community. For over thirty years they've used the ESA to destroy small landowners, largely at their whim. Meanwhile, their stated goal of recovering endangered species never materialized.

[There's no] Worst-Case Scenario Land ... but we'll take the call.