A Deal With The Devil To Slow Sprawl

A development rights deal in northern Idaho is the latest example of conservation groups making deals with their historic foes to slow suburban sprawl.

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November 15, 2002, 4:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Conservationists are buying development rights to forestlands near populated areas in an effort to keep real-estate developers at bay. In return, the timber companies get to keep cutting down trees on the land, preserving jobs and mills. In all, some 2.6 million acres of U.S. land have been protected through such conservation easements, a nearly five-fold increase from a decade ago, according to estimates by the Land Trust Alliance... 'This isnt so much an unholy alliance were seeking here, as much as a pragmatic meeting of the minds...'"

Thanks to Chris Steins

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