Rhetorical question on wilderness vs. development.

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14. Some of the smaller wineries are organic and pretty cool operations.

But sadly most of them wind up being a huge loss for the local ecosystem. I live near a few wineries that are run by bored rich people who think it's just fine to cover the fields in pesticide and then drain it off into the creek they use to irrigate the fields. We used to have a lot of deer around but since the 1% moved in they kill all the does & fawns that come around because they eat the precious grapes.
They aren't supposed to but they do take large amounts of water from local creeks & rivers to protect the grapes from frost when it's cold. I've heard of two getting caught and the fine they wound up paying was less than it would have cost them to pay for the water. Lovely.
This place has gone to hell since it became "booze alley".