{"id":1567,"date":"2026-02-24T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:32:03","slug":"more-comments-needed-by-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"More Comments Needed by Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Department of Environmental Conservation has extended the comment period for its\u00a0amended Wakesports Rule<\/a>\u00a0to Friday, February 27 at 4:30 PM. Enactment of this rule is critically important to many of our lakes. Even if you have commented before,\u00a0please<\/em>\u00a0take this opportunity to comment again (link below<\/em>).\u00a0Please<\/em>\u00a0also ask your family, friends, and neighbors to do the same \u2014\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0have them include the name of their VT lake or pond.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s at stake is graphically described in this poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty Thousand<\/strong>

Twenty-thousand paddling kayaks,
Fishing boats, swimmers, and canoes,
Battle 200 obnoxious wake surfers,
On our lake waters calm and blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to send Montpelier a message:
These monsters are destroying our lakes.
Swamping our small craft with each passage,
And spreading pollution in their wakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So contact to the Vermont Department
Of Environment, that\u2019s what it takes;
Tell them you support their effort
To keep those big boats off our lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wake boaters, with out-of-state money,
Are lobbying to kibosh this act:
Tens of thousands they\u2019re spending: not funny,
Each month in Montpelier: that\u2019s a fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sending your comment is easy:
Connect to the link<\/a> down below;
Tell them you\u2019re in favor of the new rule,
And tell them why that\u2019s so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have up \u2018till Friday at four
To flood them with comments astute.
Even if you\u2019ve already sent one,
It\u2019s helpful to fill up the chute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please forward this on to your colleagues,
Lake lovers, paddlers, and friends;
Help limit the wake surfing follies,
Support what the people intend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Send a comment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Department of Environmental Conservation has extended the comment period for its\u00a0amended Wakesports Rule\u00a0to Friday, February 27 at 4:30 PM. Enactment of this rule is critically important to many of our lakes. Even if you have commented before,\u00a0please\u00a0take this opportunity to comment again (link below).\u00a0Please\u00a0also ask your family, friends, and neighbors to do the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/responsiblewakes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}