John Bragg: Environmental rules forced $75k bridge for dry stream
John Bragg · John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire · Oct 1, 2024 · at 1:26:02
Billionaire entrepreneur John Bragg gives an example of rigid, nonsensical environmental regulation while developing a 1,000-acre woodlot.
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“When you, this particular case, it was a thousand acre woodlot, and we were building roads through it to do silviculture work, great for the future, and I went to see where they put a bridge in, and it wasn't a bridge, but it was half bridge and half rock. It ended up costing 75,000 dollars, and when I was there was no water in it, and there was only water in it maybe in the month of April when it came down off the hill. So there's no fish, huh?”
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