Developers and Republicans kill the bill-
Story in New West by. By Courtney Lowery.
It’s hard to find a bright light during the great recession, but if it is killing off the rural sprawl developers who killed the bill, there is at least a bright flicker.
Continue Reading →Rethinking the Country Life as Energy Costs Rise. New York Times.
Higher energy costs may greatly reduce the housing sprawl into our wild country, which costs the taxpayers to much to provide services, increases the cost of forest fires, and uses a lot of energy (the emerging check on the sprawl).
Continue Reading →We’ve talked about Mary Rey before. He is under secretary for natural resources and environment in USDA, and thus oversees the U.S. Forest Service. Before that he learned the ropes from none other than Larry Craig and became a lobbyist for the timber industry.
In the past, he has barely escaped jail for defying […]
Continue Reading →Plum Creek timber is the largest private landholder in Montana, and now since timbering no longer pays as much as remote subdivisions do, they are planning, asking and building a lot of them. Many are located in expensive-to-service, forest fire prone country. Most county commissions seem to think that they have to let developers do […]
Continue Reading →As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West. New York Times. By Kirk Johnson.
This is something that needs to be slowed or stopped if possible.
Hardly any existing residents seem to like this trend, but hardly anyone suggests anything effective in stopping it.
Repealing regulations protecting the environment from logging and […]
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