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

[keely emerinemix]

I like the idea of nature preserves in town, but the crime-ridden subdivisions and inner-city buildings out of code are usually inhabited by people who have few other choices.  

I realize the thread is about tearing up wilderness areas, but Donovan raises a point, although I likely disagrees with his.  What would happen if government made a commitment to cities, neighborhoods, and schools and made "downtown" areas attractive and vital -- for their original inhabitants and lower-income families, not just investors looking to gentrify entire communities?  I would love to have a downtown condo or apartment somewhere, but if I can't have Donovan's idea of deer and pheasants as my neighbors, I hope I'd at least have people with roots and families and cultures they celebrate with gusto.

The wanton, commercial destruction of wilderness is horrid stewardship of natural resources which we Christians should label "sin," and the wanton, commercial destruction of poor neighborhoods is heartless stewardship of human resources that is no less so.

Keely




Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:35:46 -0700
From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; sslund_2007 at verizon.net
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Could it -- or has it -- Happen in this Area?

It really is too bad the government won't also practice the opposite of tearing down hundreds of acres of old crime ridden subdivisions and inner city buildings out of code and replacing them with natural terrain and wildlife. Only the expansion of housing and buildings into preserve happens, never the opposite. 
 
Best Regards,
 
Donovan
 


--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net>
Subject: [Vision2020] Could it -- or has it -- Happen in this Area?
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 12:10 AM

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 of
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 Timber
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. 
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<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR200807040
2772.html?nav=rss_nation>
OR
http://tinyurl.com/58g4bm


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