> In my opion, the only ethical way to do things, would be to study the
carrying capacity and develop animal units, then to alow people to turn out
on to "the commons" a number of head scaled to their property size.

We looked into something along this line--both the Ag Commissioner and
County Council choked on the complexity of enforcing such a plan.  I'd love
to see your solution, in the form of an ordinance, spelled out.

In our ordinance, any hobbyist is free to keep up to 9 hives anywhere.  Our
restrictions apply only to beekeepers keeping more than 10 hives.  The
simplest way to spread us out was to do so by granting new apiary sites on
a first-come basis.  We are grandfathering in all already-established sites.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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