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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Such land is low- 
> priced, low-taxed, and of no interest to agribusiness people,  
> developers and politicians. Ideally, such homestead land is surrounded  
> by thousands of acres of equally undesirable land

The land on which we are homesteading could support the food needs of 30 
people (as long those 30 people did the labor) and perhaps more.  Yet on the 
map 
the whole area would be considered non-agricultural if you removed the 
component of forrestry (it's in the middle of a national forrest).  And 
rightly so, 
only hand, animal, and very small machinery is of any benefit here.

The only pressure on the price and taxing of land here abouts was over the 
past ten years or so of the pseudo wealth that led everyone to think they 
could 
afford a mountain top retreat and the 4 wheel drive land yatch to get there 
and the ability to retire at 48 to enjoy it.  That pressure is now off, and 
likely for my lifetime if not far beyond.

A lot of this marginal land will now be forgotten for a generation.


James