The notion of citizen enforcement absolutely appals me: citizens with no accountability to an elected official. I can see farmers being taken to court by multi-million dollar environmental organizations. It's exactly what happened in the seal hunt. There wasn't a legal enforcement mechanism, but again, these were impoverished rural communities being faced with multi-million dollar activist groups. Citizen enforcement without recourse to an elected official at some point is something I find completely abhorrent.
Ms. Venton, you talked about cumulative effects. Presumably, you mean incremental change in watersheds as one of those cumulative effects. I don't have much time here, but is that a fair assessment? A watershed gets changed by forestry, agriculture, or urbanization, and at some point there's a tipping point. Is that what you're basically saying?