{"id":974,"date":"2025-03-10T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/?p=974"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:01:39","slug":"permit-by-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Permit by Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Maine Department of Environmental Protection recently has created new guidelines for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Permit-by-Rule.doc\">Permit by Rule (PBR)<\/a> process.  Any activity that might affect the health of the pond is covered by this rule; this includes any soil disturbance or vegetation removal within 75 feet of the shore, movement of rocks or vegetation or the use of rip rap.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Permit-by-Rule-Overview.pdf\">This handout<\/a>\u00a0describes the sections of the rule.\u00a0 The state currently charges a fee of $320.\u00a0 For up to date information go to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dep\/land\/permits\/pbr\/index.html\">Maine government website here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_1268-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A windy day on Taylor Pond with drifting snow, snowmobile tracks head towards ice-fishing shacks on February 7. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Department of Environmental Protection recently has created new guidelines for the\u00a0Permit by Rule (PBR) process. Any activity that might affect the health of the pond is covered by this rule; this includes any soil disturbance or vegetation removal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/?p=974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}