Government leaders have again proposed large, inflexible stream and wetland buffers that could take thousands of acres of farmland out of production, this time in Whatcom County.

Sadly, these kinds of proposals made in the name of environmental protection so often fail to consider the harmful, counterproductive environmental impacts the change itself will cause.

Rud Browne, a Whatcom County Planning Commissioner, former Whatcom County Councilman and lifelong environmental entrepreneur, joins Dillon with a breakdown of some major concerns about this major new local plan.