Conservationists make most of real estate crisis - USA Today

[JohnWxy]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-05-08-landconservation_N.htm



Plummeting real estate values and demand for new housing are hammering developers but helping conservationists, enabling land trusts to buy thousands of acres that were slated for development and preserve them as open space.

Land prices are dropping and there is more land for sale when developers halt plans to build.

"You can call it a green lining in the cloud of real estate distress across the country," says Will Rogers, president of the Trust for Public Land. "Some properties that were headed for development can now be purchased for conservation."

[BlueCollar]

1. Probable GOP spin will go like this

"...enabling land trusts to buy thousands of acres that were slated for development and preserve them as open space."


"Some properties that were headed for development can now be purchased for conservation."


If the damn land trusts would stop buying up all the land they wouldn't be preventing builders from creating affordable housing.

[pretzel4gore]

2. make Blackwater giggle...

it's Idiocracy already, at the national press hq's...the goofs dribble drool on their $10 grand, slave-made ties thinking this silver-lining crap up