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Luxury Versus Sustainability

This Ameya Preserve ad from the latest issue of The Big Sky Journal touts 1% for the Planet co-founder and Craig Matthews as Fly Fishing Academy Director for the property.

Preserve developer, Wade Dokken who says,"It’s really a private national park that you can live in luxury in" once dismissed local opposition as,"class envy." The development has a fair number of critics who claim that Ameya Preserve is not all that its marketing would have you believe. 
   

I cannot see how a gated development of second-homeowners who will fly in
and out on their private jets can be called sustainable or viewed as
contributing to the health of our community. Via: The Ethicurean LINK

And what’s with the name, dude? You’re building roads, a massive lodge,
and 300 homes in once-pristine landscape—just what, exactly, are you
preserving?  Via: Outside Bozeman LINK

The Ameya Preserve subdivision will cause problems for wildlife and
those problems will worsen if the state of Montana sells two
square-mile sections of public land to Ameya developers, a state
wildlife biologist maintains. Via: The Bozeman Daily Chronicle LINK

In this five-part series, writer David Nolt of New West explores the issues and controversy surrounding the Ameya Preserve.

There are some stories in the New West that seem to encompass many, if not all, the issues we are facing as an evolving region. One of those stories is the case of the Ameya Preserve, a large-scale luxury home community planned in Montana's Paradise Valley. Via: New West: LINK

A strong comment from one of our readers on a previous Preserve post.  LINK

Mayflies of the Driftless Region

Prints are approximately six times the size of the actual insect. LINK

Happy V Day

Prominent Jewelers Announce Opposition to Pebble Mine

A group of prominent jewelers including Tiffany & Co., Helzberg Diamonds and Fortunoff will announce today that it opposes the massive gold and copper Pebble Mine planned for Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed, site of the world's largest sockeye salmon run.  Via: The LA Times LINK

The press release. Via: Earthworks LINK