Summary
Carl Ruestig remembers as a youth gazing from his family's 220- acre tree farm in north Clark County and seeing the forested Cascade foothills illuminated only by starlight. These days, the light shines from below.
"It looks like behind every tree there's a porch light," he said.See the full content of this document
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Old Adversaries Try to Save Remaining Woodlands
Ruestig, president of the Clark County Farm Forestry Association, isn't just imaging things.
Thousands of acres of traditional working landscapes from pasture to timberland have succumbed to the demand for homesites in a fast-growing county. Between 1982 and 1997, the last year in which county-level sampling was done, the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service found that Clark County lost 38,600 acres of crops, pasture and timberland, mainly to urban forms of development.Imagine an area slightly la...See the full content of this document
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