It's late, so I'll top this post off with more detail later. For now, I can hit the river without a little nagging voice in my head yelling at me to do something about this stupidity.

That's because the news is good. Not perfect, but good.

No, the supervisors didn't vote to do away with the whole Natural Resource Advisory Committee idea.

In fact, they didn't vote on it at all.

The good news? The language forcing the committee to use the much-reviled draft Natural Resource Policy (the document that contains the illegal non-navigability clauses) was stricken from the ordinance.

The bad news is the board hasn't committed to any kind of process for developing a set of sane, rational Natural Resource Policies.

You could say I'm uneasy. But relieved.

It's not all out victory. But it's a win. And clearly, all the noise caught their attention (by meeting time, you folks had sent 113 emails downrange).

Not one of the supervisors defended or even mentioned the draft Natural Resource Policy in their comments -- even as one person after another stood up and characterized those policices as divisive or narrow or illegal or any of a handful of other unhappy words.

We've still got to keep an eye on this issue, but it won't rear up on its hind legs again until January.

In the meantime, I'm going fishing. You magnificent, email-writing bastards should too. Enjoy the stuff we've been fighting for.

See you on the river (finally), Tom Chandler.