I don't have a problem with that. The way developers are working nowadays, it's hard to just have open tracts of land anymore.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-- H. L. Mencken

Finally some good news in this direction. It's about time. I do have a question to anyone who is more knoledgable than myself on the subject....

"The area is known for horseback riding and hiking trails, livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Roughly 40,000 acres are being considered for possible mineral development..."

What is possible mineral development?

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The mighty oak started out as a nut that held its ground.

Well mineral development in my state is a fancy way of saying clear cut forests and strip mine. I am glad they included stopping that proposal in the bill.

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* Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

~Ron Paul

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- James Madison