[Vision2020] Could it -- or has it -- Happen in this Area?

[Tom Hansen]

I'm guessing that, unless we put the skids to it now, in about six years 
there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Wal-Mart's newest and biggest 
super colossal supercenter in the heart of a region previously known as 
the Idaho Wilderness.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> 
> And the damage toll from the Bush administration climbs higher still . .
>  
> 
> It will take decades to reverse the damage caused by this man's
oafishness> , ignorance, and bloviating.  
> 
> Have mercy.
> 
> Keely
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:10:16 -0700
> > From: sslund_2007 at verizon.net
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: [Vision2020] Could it -- or has it -- Happen in this Area?
> > 
> > Closed-Door Deal Could Open Land In Montana
> > Forest Service Angers Locals With Move That May Speed Building
> > 
> > By Karl Vick
> > Washington Post Staff Writer 
> > Saturday, July 5, 2008; Page A01 
> > 
> > MISSOULA, Mont. -- The Bush administration is preparing to ease the
way>  for
> > the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands
o> f
> > acres of mountain forestland to residential subdivisions. 
> > 
> > The deal was struck behind closed doors between Mark E. Rey, the former
> > timber lobbyist who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, and Plum Creek
Ti> mber
> > Co., a former logging company turned real estate investment trust that
> is
> > building homes. Plum Creek owns more than 8 million acres nationwide,
> > including 1.2 million acres in the mountains of western Montana, where
> local
> > officials were stunned and outraged at the deal. 
> > 
> > "We have 40 years of Forest Service history that has been reversed in 
the
> > last three months," said Pat O'Herren, an official in Missoula
County> , which
> > is threatening to sue the Forest Service for forgoing environmental
> > assessments and other procedures that would have given the public a
voice>  in
> > the matter. 
> > <snip>
> > 
> >
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR200807> 
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> > 2772.html?nav=rss_nation>
> > OR
> > http://tinyurl.com/58g4bm
> > 
> > 
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"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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