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Rampant airboat destruction targeted by wetlands law

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by Matthew Penix
02/12/2007

Five years ago in a small canoe hidden in the marsh, Robert Victoriano waited with video camera in hand, hopeful to capture airboats chomping through Jefferson Parish swamps.

He logged 36 passes in one day watching airboats rip ruts that experts say kill vegetation and destroy nature’s natural hurricane buffer.

“It’s a nightmare. The marsh can only recover a portion of itself. If they run over and over these areas and then we get a storm, it’s open water,� said Victoriano. “It’s the death of the marsh. It doesn’t take someone sophisticated to say this is mud now.�

Jefferson Councilman Chris Roberts hopes to pass a law — the first of its kind in the state — allowing the parish to better control airboats.

“This will help us...

The rest: http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=18189
 
Anybody that hasn't yet contributed to the FAA's fund to keep Bonnie Basham in Tallahassee needs to.
These Whacko's ain't goin away, folks. Screw him and his little canoe. He should have had an orange flag on it so he wouldn't get his
environmental a$$ run over. JMO.
 
Sniper, these kinds of articles make me wanna slap somebody.
"He logged 36 passes in one day .... "

Mr. Victoriano is not only a head case, he's a liar.
 
Gents: Remember that many things we post here can be cut and pasted for other uses by people who are trying to rally their cause. Canoeist's for example. Just a thought. Best, Charles
 
Thanks, Charles. I kinda get up fast if you know what I mean (it's a genetic flaw :) )
but your caution is well taken.

Screw him anyway ..... :lol: .
 
Idiot's, it's not the rampant development that is destroying Florida it's the airboaters right! MORONS that's funny I have a picture of the marsh on the St.Johns that is from the 20's funny thing that exact spot is exactly the same! Now the rest of Melbourne and Palm Bay is completely different and developed. Where we all airboat are the only places in the state that remain like they were a hundred years ago. Why is it all the ignorant and wacko people are the ones with all the time to push this crap!
 
“The noise is unbearable,� Victoriano said. “At Crown Point on Sunday morning when we were having church, the priest had to stop services when the boats pass.�
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This environmental tactic is PURE B.S. It looks like it's a sound issue at the core of what motivates these people. Why can't they just have the backbone to call it like it is???

If Louisiana airboaters lose some rights it will not look good for our airboating future here in Florida. (or anywhere)

I'm gonna use that phrase with a different meaning....
Hey y'all, WATCH THIS!!!
We need to keep an eye on what happens in Jefferson Parrish.

matt.
 
Whatever. Like airboats running over the marsh are going to kill it off? You've got to be kidding me.

The only thing that will kill off the marsh here in Florida is the big, ugly, greed fueled Subdivision Machine. I can't speak for Louisiana.
 
Who is this moron in this canoe, if he had a half of a brain he would realize that if there were more marshes and less development not only would our grandchildren be able to enjoy the natural beauty of our stateand learn the meaning of good clean fun but when we do get bad hurricanes the marshes will be fine it's the concrete jungles that idiots like him are developing that will be destroyed and cost millions of dollars to rebuild , so when we cannot get homeowners insurance any more because morons like him are more concerned about marshes tell him to keep on building, leave the marshes alone they have been there since the begining. All I want to know is where do I send my money to keep idiots like him quiet
 
It seems funny to me that Jefferson Parrish is worried about airboats,Dont they have more pressing issues to deal with????????? The sunday services are probably interupted by the boats because thier church is gone :shock: . Thousands of peoples houses and jobs are more important than the boats. Did Louisiana request canoes or airboats to help save lives???? Maybe Sniper should sell his boat and buy a hundred canoe's for his search and rescue missions so he can "tread lightly and quietly" . Nobody yells "My ears" when they are getting help!!!! Ignorance is rampant. We got to get these things quiet or it will never stop. Its sad but true :cry: .
 
I wonder how much that canoer left in the water after his/hir days work of filming ... And what plant life they destroyed while hiding in the marsh grass?????
 
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