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- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #601
Date of adventure: 1/13/22
Out in the middle of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, a barren, lifeless Christian camp lies baking in the desert sun. What happened is a thorny tale of water rights: a previous landowner had diverted a natural stream to irrigate the property, but now the biologists at Ash Meadows have restored the spring to its original course...leaving the Patch of Heaven camp high and very dry. Who's in the right? Join me as I investigate this complicated story...and let me know in the comments what YOU think!
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I don’t think that place is abandoned. Someone is taking good care of the animals.
I am the owner of this place and it isn’t abandoned! I appreciate your comment, thank you!
@@annettefuentes9492 ... It's a good thing it isn't abandoned! Walking to many public places or jobs to see how bad "other people's children" behave but can't locate a simple trash can shows why Christians need retreats. Idiots (bibles call fools before God) believing any world outside their homes is or was theirs to destroy and would shoot everything up, break things, paint tag unintelligent messages, etc. all in 5 years making any such historical places no future museum park or something for generations to visit. These idiot people will die from Earth (thank God for that) but never creatively pass to generations of people to any usefulness in their lives today. Every structure abandoned and given up has history and idiot people of "someone else's children" were allowed to destroy even more information about many historical sentimental values these people walked the Earth to destroy.
@@annettefuentes9492 you're definitely taking great care of your animals. Good luck with your extremely interesting property!
@@Skyhawk945 Thank You 😊
Burros don't need much care and usually roam free in packs or whatever burro groups are called.
So glad they didn’t allow the development of Ash Meadows. Thanks for the clip Wonder.
I started working in Ash Meadows in 1995. Prior to that I worked for The Nature Conservancy. Prior to TNC I did several river restorations in Utah. Never worked for the ACOE.
Ash Meadows is a very special place. It has more endemic species than anywhere in the US. Once the USFWS bought the land and water, their goal was to, to the degree possible, restore the place to its ecological function. The first project I worked on was Kings Spring.
The developers you talked about dug the spring heads into ponds that eventually filled with cattails. They put all of the flow into a concrete ditch. We reduced the springs pools to their original size and recreated the channel in its original form and location.
The pupfish population exploded as well as other endemic species. The boardwalk has the story and photos.
I didn't get paid, I did the design and construction oversight as a volunteer.
We have worked in several western states, plus some large coastal restoration in Florida, very near where you made a video.
Our main focus is river restoration, but I have an excellent landscape ecologist who worked for me. She studied on the eastern coast.
I have greatly enjoyed your walking/storytelling videos. If you want more Information about nevada/utah/ California/Florida restoration sites, please contact me..
You are one of the great story tellers of UA-cam, not many people can make a barren desert interesting. In fact can't think of anyone else that can do it like you can.
Amazing or incredible doesn't begin to describe someone who can quote facts, figures, names, dates and places from memory for 30 minutes..
In addition, this young lady does it an entertaining way...The fact that she's pretty cute doesn't hurt either..
I think the pupfish is my hero. Small guys do matter. The water should have been in the deed. From the sounds of how they got the water, the property never had any rights to begin with.
Generally, in the western states, if you divert a natural stream you have to establish a legal water right to do so by filing an application with the state and having that approved through a water court. This system has been in place since the mid 19th century. This gives anyone who might be harmed by what you are doing the right to notice and to object. If you buy a property that has some sort of water use that doesn't have that legal water right you have no legal remedy if it is taken away. The lesson is, particularly in the desert, if you buy a property with water, including wells, you should make sure that you have a legal right to that water. This should be covered by title insurance since water rights are property rights. If the buyers of the church camp didn't get title insurance be it on their heads if they didn't make sure they had a legal right to the water. That is sometimes the cost of not doing your due diligence or doing something on the cheap/
Title insurance will not cover water rights even if it is on the deed. Title insurance only guarantees there are no encumbrances like liens or another claim of ownership to the property. Doesn't guarantee lot size, easements recorded or not, water rights, etc.
@@rareroots It all depends on what is requested of the title company. Often, title insurance will set out recorded easements since they are an encumbrance on the full fee title. When irrigated farms or ranches are sold the water rights can be included but not all title companies have the expertise to investigate water rights. It is a pretty specialized area.
@@relectric69 If the owners had a legal water right the government would have had to pay them the fair market value of that property right for the "taking" for a "public purpose." This is what the language of the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution protects as well as similar provisions in state constitutions. The rub comes in determining the value of property "taken" which can be a physical taking (as in this case) or a regulatory taking. The owner may say a property right is worth a million dollars and the government says it's only worth $50k. That is why takings cases are usually a war of experts testifying about the value of the property. BTW, the compensation also has to cover any reduction in value of the remaining property caused by the taking.
You’re mostly right about he water, but Title companies usually do not insure water. Water is often complicated to research & unless you hire a water attorney, or the very rare chance you get a Realtor who knows water law, it probably wouldn’t have been discovered during due diligence.
I did not know that title insurance only covers title to the land only. I suppose the owner would still have a remedy against their seller, if they are still around, for failing to disclose a substantial defect (no legal right to the water). Still, it is a lesson to any buyer to check out the status of the water. I reperesented an owner who wanted to put in a large horse operation only to discover that the well was permited for domestic use only. In your business do you research the water rights for property sold or bought?
The white fiberglass thing you saw is a parshall flume and is used to measure water flow without impeading the flow. It is used at many water and wastewater treatment plants.
the instruments and data storage are inside the wooden box
@@rbmatch1 Thanks.
Yep, that is exactly what it is.
'Everybody knew - we are a knowledge based society, strong and reliable everywhere - not existing solely on printing new US Dollars.'
Hi
I am the owner of Patch Of Heaven and would really like to let the public now that this camp although you think it is creepy and abandoned camp is not!!! You can call me
I’d imagine she’d be a great host for a show in the travel channel or history channel. She has all the tangibles.
Hussy, if you want to learn more about this and who built this place message me and I'll get you in contact with the original builder. He now has a similar place outside of Goldfield where we have events during the summer in a private ghost town similar to Walts place up in Goldpoint. Thanks for sharing
@Angie Ball not a public thing but spend sometime in Goldfield around the full moon and you will probably get an idea.
I love gold point and ash Meadows
12:35 - cats that well fed adnd groomed are pets. they probably belong to one of those private home owners you described.
Somebody must be taking care of the burros and the cats
Yes they are! And the place
Very NICELY DONE - with HISTORY - while creating a "QUESTION" instead of POINTING FINGERS and BASHING! This is HOW a DISCUSSION should BEGIN and be CONDUCTED as OPIONION GATHERING for ALL to TURN WITHIN and EXAMINE ALL SIDES! Thank you!
The place isn’t abandoned. Someone is attending to fenced in burros.
Agreed, plus the fact that she didn't explore the buildings on the property. I wonder why she didn't mention this in the video?
@Jim Oakes. It’s private property. She even mentioned that in the video.
@@azcanuck3131 Hi
I am the owner of this place and she didn’t mention going in the buildings bc she knew it wasn’t abandoned and she would be arrested for trespassing!! I guess she just wanted to promote her video at the expense of other peoples privacy!!
Excellent video, loved all of it. Everytime I watch I am learning new info. Thanks to you.
Thank you for the history and narration. Well done. Patch of Heaven is now pit of gravel. The animals look healthy so someone is doing a good job of taking care of the property. IMO common law has held for a long while if someone diverts a watershed from its natural course they are taking water that is not theirs and depriving the rightful users of the resource.
As usual I was captivated by you and your narrative of your post. Very interesting! I do appreciate the time and effort you put into your research of the subject matter. It makes one think of themselves back in that time if they could handle the situation. You take people away from the reality of today and let them have an escape form it for just a little while, it is almost magical. Thank you so much for doing what you do!
Thanks for sharing this novelty in the desert. Very informative and well done.
24:05 They fought and they lost. The courts ruled that the floods were the results of heavy rains, and the judge didn't buy the argument the the Federal Government was responsible.
Preserving a natural unique ecosystem is always right. People need to learn to coexist with our ecosystems not destroy for personal fulfillment.
I must add that the same equipment (cell phone and computer) used to make negative comments is equally useful in doing some research in gaining an understanding of the importance of using natural resources in a sustainable human centered way. Yet, I understand being a media Troll (for some fellow human beings) is necessary to help Them boost their self-esteem. Good luck with that cognitive emotional instability 😎👍🏿
Agreed 😎
I'm sorry, but Americans see everything through a money filter. IMHO☮
@@richardp6461 yes
Ok, then you would have the Owens Valley water project reversed, among others. Millions of people would have no water today. It’s a huge problem.
@@roncross1945 yeah it's a big problem when there are too many people on the planet, and people want to build entire communities in the middle of the desert, and then pretend to belong there.
Wonderful Sarah, another land of time. Love it! 😎👍
That's the Church of Metamorph. The priests shape-shift into cats 🐈 whenever strangers are around. That's my ride, I gotta go.
Victor and Annette Fuentes have officially started the process of reopening the Carson Slough following years of waiting for a federal agency to do as it was ordered.
Finally, at their limit of patience, the husband-and-wife team, who own and operate the Patch of Heaven Christian Camp in Nye County, hosted a press conference of sorts on Saturday, July 30 to celebrate their decision to restore their water themselves.
Patch of Heaven is a 40-acre parcel of private land located within the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, which is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. When Victor and Annette first purchased the property, it was a lush oasis in the desert, with plenty of water flowing in channels running through the site and filling ponds used for camp activities.
That all changed in 2010 when Fish and Wildlife altered the Carson Slough, diverting the water around the Fuentes’ property and turning it into a dust bowl. In addition to the lack of water, the Fuentes’s then had to deal with unusual flooding occurrences that they said were a direct result of the alteration of the slough.
With no alternative, the two took legal action that resulted in a years-long battle between the Fuentes’s and Fish and Wildlife. That conflict seemed to have come to an end in 2017 when the federal agency was ordered to return the water to which the Fuentes’s had a senior vested right. But Fish and Wildlife never took action to restore the water so Victor was preparing to take a tractor out and do it himself.
Victor and Annette were joined by several dozen supporters on July 30 and the gathering at the Christian camp opened with an invocation.
“We come before you with humbleness in our hearts to ask you for protection for today, to ask you to give us the ‘OK’ for today, Lord Jesus, and I thank you for each and every one of my brothers and sisters, members of the community, who have showed up here today in support of the right of Patch of Heaven,” Victor prayed.
Those assembled for the event then stood up and faced the American flag for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, after which both Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly and Nye County Commissioner Debra Strickland were invited to speak.
Wehrly read from documentation detailing the Fuentes’ right to nearly seven acre-feet of water from the Carson Slough, remarking, “So that’s his permit to have the water come through his property. And it seems that he has been doing everything that he possibly can to get that done.”
Next, Wehrly read a document outlining the warning notice sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in which the Nevada state engineer had determined that the federal agency was violating the law through its action of diverting the flow of the Carson Slough. In that letter, Fish and Wildlife was ordered to cease the full and complete diversion of the surface water that should move through the Patch of Heaven property. That order came with the possible penalty of a fine of up to $10,000 per day per violation, as well as other consequences, none of which have materialized.
Strickland stepped up to the microphone following Wehrly and she was evidently fired up about the reason everyone was assembled that morning.
“We have rights, and the rights have been taken from this man,” Strickland declared, indicating Victor. “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. You know it, it’s been like that since the beginning of time. Nothing has changed here. We’re still fighting for the water!
“When did the feds decide that all things belong to them? No way, Jose, ain’t going on no longer,” Strickland continued. “This is the time… And Victor, Annette, you are brave people and we are so proud of you for that. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today to watch you take back your right.”
At that point, Victor requested that Wehrly call Fish and Wildlife to ask a representative of that office to come down to the camp and talk over the situation. “Let’s reconcile this, let’s talk. We want to see their response,” Victor announced.
Fish and Wildlife, however, was not amenable to going to the camp but a representative did invite the Fuentes’, Strickland and Wehrly to their office. The discussion, however, apparently ended without the reconciliation that Victor was aiming for. Not deterred from his mission, he and Annette returned to their land and Victor headed out to the area that had been backfilled to divert the Carson Slough, to begin the task of reopening the waterway to its historic flow path.
This is no simple matter, either. It will take time and patience for the couple to safely and successfully complete the operation but they fully intend to see the historic flow path of the Carson Slough reinstated in the coming days
From their website
I definitely enjoyed this video. I love traveling with you! You find such unique places, always very interesting thanks Sarah...
Sarah as always entertaining and informative... Thank you!
Super interesting; thanks for checking out that entire area and doing the research. Hope you will do more videos like this one. I'm a fairly new subscriber and am enjoying your vids. Good work!
I love stuff like this,thanks for sharing with us.I always find you very interesting the way you tell your story’s.
Thank you for making me feel happy! Your videos witty, funny, educational.. The way you made me giggle peeking over your glasses saying feds, and the way you say government . I think you could be a great stand up comedian,you probably don’t know how funny you are. Keep up the great work.
Your awesome Sarah, never stop your videos! You give such educational videos! Love ❤ you! If ever come to GA, I would love to meet you!
Cool video! Thank you, Sarah Jane for showing us this place and making it so entertaining. :)
The music makes me smile every time, because it's a gonna be wonderful ad a venture with a pretty a nomad of da desert!
Sarah, this video brought back memories, in 1963 I used to come out to Ash Meadows and go swimming in the pools. This was of course long before any Gov't. regulations! Everything looks pretty much the same. You mention Dad Fairbanks, He was the grandfather of my old friend Brian Brown, who owns China Ranch, also Susan Sorrell, who owns the town of Shoshone. They are cousins.... just a little family history here :>) Another great video ! ! !
Another Great video Wonderhussy!! love listening g to you
Loved your rant Sarah. Keep up the adventures!!
Now that was very interesting! I'm heading to DV tomorrow morning and was looking at the Ash Meadows area .. and didn't realize how close it was to my favorite gas station before dropping down into the Valley .. the Longstreet Casino by the big cow! Now I'll have to check that out more closely! Thanks! 🤠
Great story and you're a good storyteller. Thank you for the video. 🌵
great video...great narration...great insights and great personal feelings.......seriously you seem much happier and recharged this new year...good for you....
Great story! Stay healthy.
Im very familiar with those pup fish. In in order to protect them further, they are separated and moved to two different places in owens Valley in natural spring on the mountain side. I've visited both locations, knowing someone who works in water and power. There is also an issue with people dumping poison into the water to kill the pup fish because they believe we're interfering with evolution by stopping extinction. They had to be moved to difficult locations that ive been to. Really amazing
Viva la federal government for saving this region from development! Thank you Hussy!!
Wow Sarah, you speak very, very well and fast. If there aren't subtitles I would hardly catch up with you. Great work Sarah.
Hey Hussy I'm a new subscriber and already love your video vlogs!
I usually watch Adam The Woo, Daze With Jordan The Lion & Carpetbagger but your channel is my newest addition to traveling vlogs! I love Vegas and can't wait to get back there sometime soon I hope! Last time I was in Vegas was 2011!
I miss it so much!💖
Sarah is the best ever!
Sara Jane, your tours to the desert are awesome 👌 love watching. You are such a sweetheart. Love from Texas.
Glad to see WH in the new year! I will be looking in often.
WH.. you are informative as much as you are entertaining!!... thank you!!
Sarah another excellent history on your adventure ❤️❤️❤️
Best part of this video,seeing the 2 cats.🐈🐱
Thank you. So much information. I love it. Amazing whats out there and the water being protected.
Take it from an old cat lady. That sweet well nourished cat has a beloved owner. Owner Probably has a few cats there for company. I live at the very west part of Pahrump right next to the mountains. On a septic but with city water from Amagosa Great Basin water company. Sort of like a vacation home but lived in all the time. Love the beauty and privacy. I like your wanderings through the desert.
Thank God the government had the brains to do the right thing for once ! And protect that beautiful country ! Thanks 😘 Wonder hussy ! For another informative and great video 👍
Takes me back to my youth. Playing in the dunes in the morning, skinny dipping and fishing at ash meadows in the afternoon. Only to get kicked out of the brothels at night. Those were the Day's
Mother Nature “ Rules”
Brilliant, as usual. Hope you're feeling better....
The interesting thing about water is that the earths supply is finite. The water never leaves the planet so the water here was also water in some form since the formation of the planet. Pretty mind blowing.
On her way to becoming 'The Richard Attenborough of Las Vegas and Death Valley'. I am serious, you've got the talent. And you could as well employ some sort of ghost writers to write down your spoken texts, go over them and have them printed as a book series - 'Adventure walks with WH' - together with some of your marvellous pictures you always take. while exploring. Could be an additional side brand to Las Vegas. 'LV and WHs exiting adventure walks to the hidden secrets - only here in this beautiful area'. And thank you for sharing 🤗.
You're so cool Ms. Hussy, love the vids...
You crack me up every time I watch your vids, stay safe out there Lil bit.
WH, this would be a good “follow up” video opportunity, interviewing the owner and touring the whole place!
Wonder Hussy needs more SUBS, spread the word of the day ... GAMS ! & lets get her some #'s
Hussy is stepping up her game! 👏
HiH - just what I was thinking as I was watching this episode...
Great quick research and storytelling!
One of your best. Great video.😎
I enjoy your videos. I did a lot of the ecological restoration at some of the sites you have visited, including Ash Meadows. The Patch of Heaven was never a green oasis. Yes they had a ditch with some water, but they did not own the water rights. The place looks the same today as it did over a decade ago. I would love to talk to you about the sites you have visited that I worked on.
Chad Gourley
Your still telling your lies and destroying critical habitat!! We have videos and pictures of your illegal work and diversion that you preformed without permits from Army Corp, State Engineer and FEMA. Remember you and your friend Tim Mayer WHO by the way was disqualified by the State Engineer as being a Expert on Waters Rights as he is NOT!!! By the way the Carson Slough has always traverses the Patch Of Heaven Camp until the day you illegally and unlawfully diverted it. And yes we do have Water Rights on the Carson Slough and this right is VESTED and the only right on the Carson Slough and the ONLY SENIOR WATER RIGHT . You know that every document every map ever since 1881 shows the water running through the camp! BTW you have a copy of this map that is also displayed at LongStreet Springs. Don’t forget also that the State Engineer ordered you and the department of Fish & Wildlife to return a portion of the water back to Patch Of Heaven and until today it hasn’t been fulfilled bc the system you installed to deliver the water has NEVER worked just as everything you touch is a failure!!! So I would recommend you stop with false information!! Patch of Heaven was an Oasis when we bought it there were bird, geese, wildlife until your incompetence and illegal work!!So when you get ready to give your false information to this lady make sure we are there to show her the pictures of before and after your faulty work!!! BTW let’s NOT forget your faulty Culvert work that you built that was blown out from the flood waters!!Have a great day you lying Scumbag!!
You seem very angry, maybe have a little laydown. Several of the sites Hussy has showcased in southern Nevada was one work, and I would love to talk to her about them, like Moapa and paranagate
Suppose to say our not one
@@chadgourley2492 You bet Chad!!! Very angry that your shoddy work has destroyed our camp and the ecosystem and species in Ash Meadows!! BTW You mean Moapa that had flooding issues after you worked there??? I hope that Fish & Wildlife learned a lesson from hiring you and hopefully will terminate your work if they care anything about the Species!! Remember you used to work for Army Corp you should have know you needed that Permit???? Funny how you no longer work for them anymore and have managed to get 99% of the government jobs smells Pupfishy to me when you have no competition!!! You need to leave us out of your comments and stop your lies. Your shady shoddy work will catch up with you one day!!! Yours truly VERY ANGRY
Some of my favorite WH videos are about the Amargosa river and its environs. Natural features and sites of man's impact (good or bad )abound in this area. Sarah, you do a great job of mining these stories and sharing them. In this case l agree with returning the area to as close as possible to natural conditions. Stay safe.🌹🌵
Another great vid, Sistafrennn!!
I found an article dated 2018 explaining that they won in court and the government was ordered to restore their water. The government constructed a pumping station to send the water, but it doesn't work properly so the fight is still going on.
I understand saving an ecosystem, and yet, if you bought property with water flowing through it, there should be something on paper regarding water rights. Water rights are defined quite clearly on deeds, (especially in the desert). I bought 1.45 acres of desert, years ago, and listed on my deed was that I had no water rights. I could have drilled a half mile down, found water, and it would be someone else's water ... because I had no right to it. Those persons who bought the Patch of Heaven, either had water rights or not. If they had no rights to the water on the land, the government was in their right to divert the water away. If the deed said, the owners had water rights, the government should not have been able to divert all the water away.
Agreed. Water/gas rights are a big pain in the ass.
Yes sir, they should have done more homework on it. Too many folks do not read the fine print and just "assume" that it is this way but are surprise when it changes. If they had a lawyer working on it, they might have a case against him for failing to catch this item, but that is rarely clear cut.
When the water originates from somewhere other than the property, any kind of unnatural diversion upstream can come back to haunt...
@@Snarkapotamus exactly. It’s a big picture thing, not greedy individuals
The same holds true with Gold and mineral rights. Those deeds cost more $$ Cashola.
I always enjoy listening to your research info. I am learning alot from the Hussy.
Helps if the stuff you are learning is correct! This is not a abandoned property! And most of what she said is not accurate!
@@Kimickdunn she admits she did a quick research... she does not claim to have everything correct.. this is her style of video and everyone loves her...
Why so negative?
Take a chill pill.
Or like prior comments, add what you know to be correct and show where others can read on your knowledge unless it's info handed down from others
Very interesting, nice video Sarah.
Great video WH . You just get better and better .
I think someone is still living there in the camp Sarah. Glad you didn`t go in, someone feeding the animals. Respect the sign girl, stay smart, be safe. Feds. will take land if needed for water rights or roads if you don`t sell it to them. Not fair but law. I hope the land price was paid back.
Like you, Good argument for both sides. However I do believe the indigenous, diverted streams for irrigation purposes.
Thank you for the great video, after watching this I am taking my wife on a road trip from vegas to see this.
Good job on this one ☝️ fantastic information ℹ️ from a Canadian perspective. Really enjoy your videos. Walking with Bruce.
About 5 years ago, a friend and I were in a rental car headed to Wells, Nevada to pick up her brother. Thank the good Lord I got the extra insurance because when we drove through Ash Meadows (middle of the night & a full moon), ALL the wild rabbits were lined up on both sides of the road and ran towards the lights of our car! It was a blood bath!!
Yeah, but you got a nice fur-lined drive shaft out of it!
@@jimhamman2335 - drive shaft and complete under carriage was a bloody & furry mess!! LOL
@@shereesheree7735 thump, thump, thump....thump, thump
Thumper lol kamakazi thumper
@@jimhamman2335 I drove up to Reno fifteen yrs. ago and the hiway was solid squeshed rabbits. Off the hiway the rabbit pellets were piled up like snow. Never seen anything like it.
I wasn't aware of this preserve as an argument to save a fish species but do recall the Delta Smelt debate for similar reasons. I am also aware of fresh water being a problem for much of the desert regions of California and Nevada, as well as several desert areas out west. Farmers and the federal government are not friends as a result in many cases.
WH i can listen to your storytelling forever … 🙏🏼
I gotta visit this place...Thank you Hussy!!! I just started watching your videos/show. I must say that you have a knack for this...keep up the Great work!👍✌
P.S. maybe Heaven is thru that small opening in the ground🤔
Awesome information & water rites are crazy important in Montana also.without them you could lose your irrigation for your land. Glad to see you feeling better. Ancient places are truly amazing & mysterious. Have a blessed week my beautiful friend 💖🌟
Gotta wonder if the seller knew that the Feds were going to divert that water supply, since they (Feds) were already working on the area.
Awesome video Wonderhussy and colorful and enjoying and watching now 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😄👌 awesome video ❤️
The spring reminds me of you , hopefulness out of bare ness thanks for your enthusiasm ☮️🌵
Thank you for this episode.
That donkey was doing the donkey bonkey because they were happy seeing a person. Donkeys do that, as a way of laughing, expressing delight, saying hello.
Its their language of expression.
I hope you did not take that cat.
Be a visitor....not a taker
I am the Owner of the camp and I appreciate your comment…. Please don’t take the cat
"You gonna feed me?"
@@annettefuentes9492
Aww!!❤️
I would've taken the cat had he or she looked like it was desperate in need of help, but they were obviously well taken care of, & happy lil buggers.
@@sharimc72 Thank you for noticing 🥰
@@annettefuentes9492
I'm a professional.... I'm a crazy cat lady!! And, your floofy kitty reminds me of my Butterball who passed away at 12 yrs old, last year. 😻
What a great place! I am glad we protect these places because they are so awesome and deserve to be protected but sometimes officials take things too far. Seems like in the restoration allowing access to property owners should have been considered because they have rights too.
Bravo! Water rights can be compared to a gold standard in terms of future viability to population growth, sustainment, and land management..
Excellent video…great stuff . Blessings up
If these developers are hell-bent on developing something, why not try their hand at a place that actually needs it? Detroit comes to mind. There are enough already ruined areas that could be returned to functionality maybe even beauty, without screwing up yet another wonderful natural location.
They want to make money.
Yeah. Not a bad point.
Defense rests.
Isn't Detroit, like, cold most of the year?
There is a huge effort to develop Detroit. My niece lives in Detroit. The housing market is really tight. I suspect in 10-15 years, cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo will see a huge resurgence. As global warming worsens, these cities will be impacted less, have adequate water supplies and are better designed. I been Las Vegas a year. As a Chicago transplant I miss the subway system and neighborhoods.
Awesome episode WH! A what an interesting place Ash Meadows is
Regarding your question: I can't help but feel that returning the stream to it former course is the right thing for nature as a whole. Nature was there waaay before those settlers and even the native americans and especially a vunerable system like this one needs all the help it can get (and Pup-fish rock!!)
Love your fun attitude, I just discovered this site I am so glad I did. Fun fact, all water on Earth is billions of years old.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you!
FYI, you received a message from the owner of Patch of Heaven under the Brian Garrow comment. It might be interesting to contact her and see the patch up close and also get her story.
She seems angry, & bitter. I doubt that's gonna happen.
I bought land that had a stream through it in winter and was bone dry in summer. I found out that my field was salmon habitat. Every few years the stream would flood, and apparently, salmon could use it as a safe haven. Even though it limited what I could do, I thought that was pretty cool. Then a pipeline company decided that they wanted to build a three-foot natural gas pipeline across my property to export gas from North Dakota to China. Cheney supported it. It took a lot of money and effort to get it stopped. After the threat of the pipeline was squashed, I was able to sell it.
I always love your videos and am wondering how you are doing with shingles??...praying you feel better soon.
Maybe next time get some drone footage. Love the glasses and your three stooge comment on the donkeys. It was truly golden. Aloha. 🌺🌸🌴❤️🇺🇸.
Sure glad you're full of wanderlust and willing to share your discoveries. What a change from Las Vegas. Loved your narration... and your channel. To me, seems as the gov't went a little far in their zeal to "protect" this land. Wasn't the reason for protection the ...puffer? fish? Seems that little fish had all the water & area it needed, why deny the water's use to a neighbor? Stay safe out there.
Where does it stop? Places that are natural are becoming fewer and fewer. Does the world need another christian retreat or casino parking lot? Maybe we can decorate the place with beer cans and Mylar ballons. That natural spring is much more spiritual than some 2 bit western movie set.
Doesn't look like any natural spring with a plastic diverter and locked covers
@@susans7091 Its still under reconstruction.
Very interesting vid. Good job!
I thought this was one of your best. Pretty interesting and you did your homework lol. KudosWH 😃🇺🇸
Another great and interesting video. With regards to the Christian camp and the government diverting their water, it is obvious to anyone with common sense that the government is at fault for diverting the water without compensating the owners. It really doesn't matter that the water had been diverted by a previous owner, the new owners had this water running on their land when they bought it and had a reasonable expectation that they would have continued rights to use that water. These people need to be provided with a new source of water or have the government purchase the land at its value when the water was available. Yes, I know all about the water rights issues and the guy who diverted it in the first place may have done an inappropriate thing, but these new owners did not know this. Rest assured that if a property owner adjacent to federal land did what the government did here, the feds would have jumped in with both feet and a battalion of lawyers. It's all about who has the power. Beautiful and interesting area though.
To all viewers PLEASE DO NOT TRESPASS on this PROPERTY it is NOT ABANDONED!!
It seems pretty obvious to me that its not abandoned, just closed.
@@JamesTaylor-pr4zf Thank you for your helpful comment😊
I just love you.... you bring interesting places and people to all of us.
Now I want to go to many of these places now...
Thank you for all you do WH.. KEEP ON TRAVELING TOO... BLESSINGS AND BE SAFE TOO...💜💜💜💜
Somehow never watched this one. Love it so much and have driven by the turnoff from 95 so many times. TY for what you do!