You, and some of the others on this thread are helping me understand what's happening to the fantastic American nation I grew up in. We have so many beautiful places to acheive our American dream and "sense of place."
As I watched on television just a couple of nights ago, living in the shadow of Mt. Rainier is one of the most dangerous possible places in the universe! That mountain will inundate the greater Seattle area and a lot of Puget Sound any time now.
I grew up in a nation that has always used "housing starts" as a measure of economic progress and for good reason! I'm dismayed to find the same depressing NIMBYism here on FR that florishes in the most extreme liberal Democratic Party circles.
These Commonists in The Trust For Public Lands will soon have a USSR style "5 Year Plan" for these short sighted ranchers and will convince or coerce enough timid public policy makers that it needs to be enforced on these ranchers and especially their descendents/heirs.(It's for the Chillrun, ya know)
I can see now, how people who believe in the old concept of property ownership and control as an inalienable right are not even being supported by participants on a site dedicated to a Free Republic as once was possible under the second most enlightened document ever produced by mankind!!!