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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 22, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

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

Countering the economic downturn effect of weakened second home  
affordability, there could well be another back-to-the-land movement.  
Most population flow to and from rural places has been driven by  
economics. Hard times move people back to rural places. The challenge  
is how to secure a rural place where a family might subsist.