America’s Vanishing West: California losing most land to development
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The natural landscape of the American West is gradually disappearing under a relentless march of new subdivisions, roads, oil and gas production, agricultural operations and other human development, according to a detailed mapping study released Tuesday. From 2001 to 2011, an area totaling 4,321 square miles — or 15 times the size…
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I would have thought Florida led the list. We have the largest, so I’m told, remaining wilderness east of the Mississippi, but it’s being paved over or polluted as fast as the out of state investors can manage. It’s heartbreaking.
I once read a Newsweek article that spoke to Key West. It was titled: They Paved Paradise. And they did.
It’s the developers here, greasing the palms of the greedy. I’m lucky where we are, not too much is going by way of development since it’s an older place with old and new money, you know how that goes. But I have seen a couple of really ugly mcmansions going up not too far from us.
California doesn’t seem to stand a chance, but then they always manage to come back. Tough folks.