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For the third year in a row, Shannon Ferrell and I have decided to cover the status of the “waters of the United States” rule in our annual article for the Southwest Farm Press. \u00a0Between the\u00a0Duarte Nursery<\/em> trial court decision in California, the landowner victory in the United States Supreme Court\u00a0Hawkes<\/em> ruling, and the speculation about actions that\u00a0the Trump administration might take, we had plenty of angles to consider. \u00a0To read our article, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the third year in a row, Shannon Ferrell and I have decided to cover the status of the “waters of the United States” rule in our annual article for the Southwest Farm Press. \u00a0Between the\u00a0Duarte Nursery trial court decision in California, the landowner victory in the United States Supreme Court\u00a0Hawkes ruling, and the speculation about actions that\u00a0the Trump administration might take, we had plenty of angles to consider. \u00a0To read our article, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2443,"featured_media":4474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wotus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhere Do We Stand on WOTUS - 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