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Interesting and concise overview of this story. The practices and priorities of people must change and adapt in order to begin to correct for short-sighted damage done. It's good to read statements from both sides, as both are "conservative" in that they want to preserve and protect something with historic precedence and systemic importance. It's the motivations that must be weighed, and a compromise made that is best for future generations. money made via environmental destruction isn't the kind of human development that will benefit in the long run. We now know some, but not all of the consequences, and they are dire. I'm grateful to these folks who are doing their best to create a wise plan for us all, for the forest and the water, and to journalists who tell the story.