Water is a big deal here in Montana. Not simply how much water is flowing through the rivers, but how it flows is heavily regulated. Seriously, you’re supposed to fill in an environmental impact statement before you move rocks around in the riverbed.
However, a lot of people don’t. Rugged individualism is still alive and well around here. So you end up with stuff like in the picture above. People (generally college students) reconfigured the river bed to make places to sit and soak.
Personally, I don’t think the change in water flow is really going to destroy the river banks. If they did it on private property, I wouldn’t blink. This was in a park. On private property, they pour in concrete. That I have problems with.
If you were hiking along in a park and saw a bunch of people moving the rocks around, would you say anything? Would you care?
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