Proposal is one of many showing developers have learned nothing-
Although this won’t fly in the current economy, developers around the country are still proposing more of the same for the future when the economy improves.
Where I live (Pocatello, Idaho) the local developers are making a big effort to gut the new county land use plan to fulfill their dreams of urban sprawl from Idaho to the Utah border.
Story on the North Idaho development. N. Idaho timberland eyed for luxury homes. AP
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Here’s what going on in Bannock County, Idaho (Pocatello area). The realtors are a real ugly crew. Sparks fly at county meeting. Idaho State Journal.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
And so it is here, too, Ralph. And thank you belatedly, for your kind response to my now much-earlier note regarding the Pocatello area and a certain cougar.