Protecting Forests From Urban Sprawl
18 March 2003 - 2:00pm
Anti-sprawl efforts in King County, WA, use an innovative financial model
"King County has been subject to relentless development pressures over the past several decades, and we've paid a heavy price...The Evergreen Forest Trust — a private conservation group — pursued purchasing the tree farm to ensure that it remains an undeveloped and natural area in perpetuity....The trust developed the idea of buying [lands] using tax-exempt bonds...The key here is that the 104,000 acres would never be converted to highways, strip malls or cookie-cutter housing developments."
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Keep creeping sprawl out of our eastern forest
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 18, 2003
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