[SierraWasp]

"or we will end up with subdivisions that won't do anything for fish."

What market would there be for these subdivisions with no employment nearby? The only thing I can thing of is retirement communities and even they need more entertainment than fishing.

Will they mandate wheelchair access all along the streams? Will oxygen tanks and Viagra be dispensed in vending machines along the rivers? Will "Family Flats" replace the "Granny Flats" that qualify as second structures on parcels like around here?

What are you saying. I do not understand where you think the market for this subdividing and development is coming from so far out in your rural area. At least we are closer to the metropolitan areas which create these "pressures!"

Fill me in as I am puzzled, if you have time.

[marsh2]

Lake Shastina and Mt. Shasta are booming. It is the early retiree or the second home market. Most of this is spreading from south to north through the Shasta Valley.

[hubel458]

They are coming in and developing fast in those counties.
In a logging and farming rural area like they have there,
they have hundreds of housing starts in each county.The
realters in lockstep with greens up there,is changing things fast.West coast retirees love the mountains and rivers.The biggest chain stores are building all over
that country,figuring the population will triple in 15 years.We have had greens on the crisis site extol the virtue of malls and developement, stating we don't need the farmer or logger at all.They plan on a store clerk and
old folks health care economy.Living in among politically correct wilderness areas.Whoopee......Ed Hubel.

[Carry_Okie]

Fill me in as I am puzzled, if you have time.

I'm stunned that you are asking this question after reading the book. Most of the high-end development in the West is now based upon such absentee ownership.

[AuntB]

You didn't ask me Waspman, but that hasn't stopped me yet..:<). Klamath has a college. Also has lots of "recreation/tourist" possibilities. Also has an airforce base and has lots of Government jobs. A couple days ago I read an article that the last sawmill in Libby, MT. was shutting down, unemploying 300 people. 100 new jobs are being offered by the government...forest service, etc. Unfortunately none of the layed off employees qualify because they are not hispanic....new rules for the forest service etc. to hire more latino's or at least bilingual...we indigenous peoples...white, English speaking are just out of luck. In Klamath there is a new housing project of 2000 homes...they have no problem providing water for that. Marsh, as usual, is right.