While donating all these lands immediately to conservation trusts from the start would be the best of all worlds for everyone, including us, financing a solution this large cannot rely on charity alone. It’s simply too big. Nor can we ask schools statewide to donate their investment landholdings to a good cause amidst a budget crisis. Therefore, we will work with McCall to plan a constellation of phased, small, clustered developments, away from existing homeowners as much as possible, and with large spans of conserved forest in between. These forested areas would continue to provide residents and visitors alike with the sprawling network of publicly accessible trails they currently enjoy, and would allow our team to maintain and improve the public’s access to them in ways state agencies cannot. If you enjoy using these lands now, the care we will afford these acres should let you enjoy them easier, always, and without the threat of State sale ever again.
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