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Deal struck in MT to preserve forest; why not Temecula?

The parallels with the Temecula/Granite Construction case and the Nature Conservancy-Trust For Public Land/Plum Creek Timber Company case in Montana are striking.

True, the private Temecula landholders of a few lots of scenic land leased to Granite Construction affecting the destiny and lifestyle of 200,000-plus people don’t care the slightest about their neighbors, community or wildlife, differ from the Montana players.

It’s interesting that the Montana case even discusses the transit routes of grizzlies, which has the powerful Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) involved, while Temecula’s mountain lions’ and other wildlife transient routes seem to have attracted no interest from our similarly powerful state politicians, who amazingly seem indifferent to the welfare of the 200,000-plus Temecula area resident human beings as well.

We vote and pay the highest state taxes in the US. Grizzlies and mountain lions don’t, but Montana even respects them too, as well as its much smaller-than-California human population.

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Nick Biddle, Temecula

 

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