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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D_I_R_T who wrote (5900)	2/23/2006 3:34:37 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

You have insight from the inside which is invaluable in the discussion. It has been clear to many that the system in the US for managing forests was broken. We have activist environmentalists who for the cost of a lawyer (often a staff lawyer) and some legal fees can block the harvesting of trees at risk of becoming a fire hazard. They block private use of land as well. If my memory serves me: There is a trust on Long Island that has been buying up a large tract of land to block development. In California there is a trust that has been paying farmers to keep farming the land. In Pennsylvania there is a trust that pays the real estate taxes for farmers, but the amount paid plus interest becomes a lien against the sale of the land to developers (prior owners arrears are included). Like the Canadian solution, these appear to be good old free market responses to what some view as the development problem. It is typical of America that we have a portion of our policy managed by self appointed self interested stewards. I doubt if our Founding Fathers ever contemplated that men in black might some day usurp the authority of the other two branches of government. Why should our forests cost us money when they could be better managed and produce revenues? That is the way capitalists should solve the problem. There was a more interesting discussion of the article at: Message 22192533