"...it has a lot to do with commodity prices,” Paul Tauke, chief of the Forestry Bureau and State Forester for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said Tuesday. “Landowners are making a different set of decisions than when corn was at $2-a-bushel. ...“You can’t blame them[.]” Oh bullshit. I can and do blame them. "...Ben Gleason, sustainable program manager at the Iowa Corn Growers, said there’s more to the conversion of woodland to cropland than commodity prices. As Iowa cities expand, woodland and cropland are gobbled up by residential and commercial development." That too is true. All I have to anecdotally verify this is drive north of the Des Moines city limits! Or west. Or south. Or east. There is plenty of blame to go round. And not the least the well-intentioned, white-collar, lower and mid-level young managerials, the Prius with the Sierra Club decal-in-the-rear window crowd, who find their dream home in the exburbs.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:29:58 +0000
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