This fellow sounds like a very bad steward of land. It reminds me a whole lot of the hundreds of thousands of those people over the years who've ruined millions of acres of wetlands, grasslands and other lands by ditching, tiling and bulldozing lands that were marginal farmland after the fact at best. They fill the shallow lakes with silt, flood downstream cities with their fast flowing drainage and destroy nesting and habitat of millions of waterfowl, upland game and all sorts of other animals to produce more bushels of whatever and get less for it. The enormous hog confinement "cities" produce so much pewtrid liquid manure and foul the air so bad that you can hardly stand to drive through many areas in the midwest (e.g. Iowa, southern MN, etc.) and run off ruins the waters above and below ground.
Somebody should tell those in the country that it's not all"town folk" who are doing the"raping" of the land, wetlands, streams and lakes.