[cripplecreek]

I dug this up the other day. Its part of a 100+ page land use report for my county (Jackson Michigan). This is only the "Greenways" plan. When you start adding in bike paths, hiking trails, buffer zones etc, it doesn't leave much for the people.

[muawiyah]

The US government already owns 30% of the land in the country. Eventually we are going to have to mortgage that stuff to pay Social Security ~

BTW, here we have a problem with beavers. They live along the Potomac just 2 miles away. They cross two 16 lane Interstate highways to get here.

There is no need for a corridor.

We also shut down the BEAR corridor through the simple expedient of having every homeowner in Northern Virginia build a fence. Even bears get tired of tearing through enough fences.

[Quick Shot]

Having grown up in that county, does not surprise me. The tax base makes it such that if you have preserve/non-farm land, the local government will deem some portion usable home sites and tax accordingly.
That is what happened to a family friend with 200+ acres. They zoned 5 water front lots on the edge of his property. the property tax was more on these lots then the rest. They gave that land away.... Their private lake became public. Was great bass fishing.