Started a project last July. The company got in all the data within a few weeks of me being in the field and turned all the data into all the regulators. But can't get a permit to proceed from one agency. Finally they had a sit down with the agency who is holding everything up and were told that to issue a permit they had to do a wildlife study in October for a certain animal, then publish the study for 60 days and then maybe get a permit in february.
The only reason they needed a permit from the agency is that to get onsite they had to cross property controled by the agency over an existing constructed road. Now the company has decided to build a mile of new road from the opposite direction. I tried to tell them to cross that little parcel would set them back. I don't think february would happen anyway. With these people something else would come up later-it's never ending.
Of course building the road from the other direction isn't going to help whatever animal they are trying to "protect", it's all open pasture all the land is the same ecosystem with the same uses, but hey why do something that makes sense.
Fanatics, of all sorts, are a danger to society in general.
My more experienced clients don't even bother with them anymore. They just hire me to stake exclusion areas for them, then build roads and utilities around the properties. I've done a lot of that the last 5-10 years. Out in the field big red stakes every 300' in the middle of nowhere just to miss some land that will cost an arm and leg to cross.