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writes:  What about landowners who sell their trees to lumber
companies who come in and clear cut to remove the trees? I hope
they are covered under some of these storm water regulations.
They will clear cut an area and it becomes a sea of mud after it
rains, as there is no ground cover left. Do they have to keep
their distance from creeks and streams too? Do they have to
leave buffer zones? Stands of large trees take up a lot of water
out of the ground. Where's all that water going to go? Down the
slopes and into creeks and streams carrying dirt with it.  If
it's so environmentally important for developers to manage storm
water, it ought to be important for others disturbing large
areas of the landscape as well.