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This is sickening.

Faster horses said:
This was posted on Cattle Today:
"Losing Ground" urban sprawl is a documentary by Angus TV on YouTube. I looked it up to be sure. 1.5 million acres a year, 175 acres an hour, 3 acres a minute in the U.S.A lost to urban sprawl and development."
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spent 9 years on WSGA land trust, it a tool but not for everybody, most it was a way to get the ranch to the next generation, some actually use it on their home place to help buy out a neighbor that was selling.
 
Faster horses said:
This was posted on Cattle Today:
"Losing Ground" urban sprawl is a documentary by Angus TV on YouTube. I looked it up to be sure. 1.5 million acres a year, 175 acres an hour, 3 acres a minute in the U.S.A lost to urban sprawl and development."
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It ain't no bull honey! Just above me, what used to be 1,000 acres of pasture and hayfield, is nearly all developed! Most small residential lots with $500k homes. The gravel county road on the far end is now paved and where there were three houses with 20 acres lots, there are 12 with 5 acres. Supposely these can't be divided down anymore, but only time will tell. There are about 500 new small lot homes (just in this area above me) built in the last 10 years. The only field that is left is the 30 acres alfalfa field with a sad frost-damaged 5th stand that never got cut. The 4th cutting stack is still there and well covered indicating no one is interested in it at the price tag.

I bet that field won't last another year. I heard a rumor the developer has upped his bid to $2.5 million. I am not sure how many lots they could get out of that 30 acres, but I bet the price tag of those future homes will be pushing $750K minimum.

The thing is this is an agricultural area without any exciting views so the folks coming will be city folks, mostly executives, to fill the jobs in the growing massive Google centers that line the Columbia River.

Here is just one of the cooling plants where they use thousands of gallons of water to cool their massive computers. Liberal environmentalists no longer care about warming the water and what it does to the salmon.
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Here is just one of the complexes.
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Wyoming has 30- or 35-acre exemption that passes county subdivision rules, as Dec 1st Crook County is now 140 acres, or you have to Platte and subdivide. There was lot of 35 acres lost done before the rule went in. One ranch has 500footx 5/8 mile lots along a county road with a driveway to 2 lots every 1000 feet. it was like a 40,000 acre place they cut out a few 1500 acres places one big 20,00 to 25,000 with the improvements (price at what the developer paid for the whole thing).
 

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