Do ‘Conservation Subdivisions’ Really Help Wildlife?
Sand Creek Ranch in Buffalo, Wyoming.
For millennia, Colorado’s Yampa River Valley has followed the rhythms of wildlife mating and migration, the habits of elk and grouse and bear. The arrival of ranching in the 1880s altered the pattern a little, but radical change didn’t occur until the last half of the 20th century. That’s when the big ranches began to be broken up into small ranchettes and vacation-home lots, the kind of low-density exurban sprawl responsible for habitat fragmentation across the West.
Desperate to preserve Routt County’s character, in the mid-1990s its commissioners fought to pass Land Preservation Subdivision ordinances, or LPS. It was an early form of conservation development, an increasingly popular land-planning tool that develops part of a property to fund the preservation of the rest.
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Un nuevo concepto nació hace un par de años en la Colorado State University. El concepto del "Conservation Development" que busca congeniar dos cosas que son aparentemente contradictorias: El Desarrollo y la conservación de la naturaleza. Les dejo este interesante artículo publicado en una de mis e-magazines favoritos (Adventure Journal) sobre este nuevo concepto:
