Environmentalists say Mudfest 'decimating' wetlands

Palm Beach Post Saturday 18th February, 2012

Small Type Although Debra Sales has not paid a $9,000 fine for destroying wetlands during two mud bogging events on her property last year, the South Florida Water Management District allowed Sales to host another mud bogging event this weekend with hundreds of monster trucks, mud-buggies and ATVs plowing through the same wetlands.Mudfest, billed a...

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