Complaint dropped against plantation owned by DNR board member

ATLANTA - The federal government has dropped a complaint against one of the south Georgia quail plantations accused of killing predators of the game birds with poisoned eggs. <br> <br> The Environmental Protection Agency complaint named Kolomoki Plantation LLC, headed by James E. Butler Jr., a Columbus lawyer and member of the state Board of Natural Resources. <br> <br> The EPA has since acknowledged that the corporation bought Kolomoki Plantation, near Blakely, in 2001, after the poisoning occurred. <br> <br> ``EPA knew when they filed the complaint they could not possibly have a case against my corporation. The corporation did not even exist until almost two years after the poison egg incidents occurred,&#39;&#39; Butler said. <br> <br> EPA officials said that time sequence was not clear when the complaint was filed last month. <br> <br> There are related complaints against others previously connected with Kolomoki and another quail-hunting retreat, Albemarle Plantation, east of Albany. They could be fined millions of dollars.