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State of Working Lands: February 2010 Sent Tuesday, February 2, 2010 View as plaintext

The State of Working Lands


February 2010



 Having Lots to Learn
 
Prior to the real estate bubble, landowners and developers subdivided private working lands.  The speculative housing market drove real estate prices to values many multiples greater than values for forest, farm and ranch production.  The bubble residue left a pattern on the landscape of premature subdivisions - a configuration of building sites with no one home.  Three partners share an interest in learning from this subdivided history:  Valley Advocates for Responsible Development (VARD - Teton County, Idaho), the Sonoran Institute, and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Read more>>.
  
                                                                                
 

Homes on the Edge - A Burning Question
 
Wildland fire suppression costs consume $3 billion dollars from the  federal  budget.  A primary factor that contributes to the increased costs  is the protection of private property in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).  Headwaters Economics, a non-profit organization, reviewed the factors contributing to higher costs, and concluded that existing policy does not address the expansion of residential development in the WUI.  Instead, public policy concentrates on the current condition - i.e., what should be done about the existing private structures in fire prone areas?  Read more>>
 
 


Forestry Conference - March 3-4, 2010 - Boise
 
The Society of American Foresters and partners have organized a two day conference in Boise on March 3-4, 2010.  A second in a series ,  the discussions will review current forest conditions, the forest restoration need, the industry role to attain restoration goals on the landscape, and the social license to practice forest management on public lands. For the conference announcement  read more >>
 






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