Fellow E-12-ers:
Can you stand a little (actually, a lot!) of good news?!?
As many of you seasoned veterans are more than casually aware, for the past eight (count ‘em!) years I have been one of the three chairs of a campaign launched to save the entry of our Rock Creek from being converted from a historical hay farm into an errant subdivision of 36 single family homes that would be serviced by 36 separate septic systems and an improperly dug 9 acre pond right at the confluence of Rock Creek and the Clark Fork of the Columbia River.
Our mounted opposition to this would be project has been nothing short of monumental: We gathered nearly 4,000 petition signatures; opposed this project in the courts, with MT Fish Wildlife & Parks, MT Department of Environmental Quality, the Missoula County Planning Commission [which unanimously rejected this proposed subdivision], the Missoula County Supervisors, the MT Governor’s Office; we had numerous articles and unsolicited editorials written on our behalf; we found ourselves printing bumper stickers, t-shirts, and posting bill boards and lawn signs in opposition; we led a protest march down Rock Creek Road that made the front page of the Missoulian; and, all-in-all, left no stone unturned such that this project became the first major subdivision in the history of Montana to be unilaterally turned down—the very first ever.
Fast forward eight years and feast your eyes on the attached article which announces that the 147 acres that we to be the site of this proposed subdividing debacle to man and nature, thanks to the auspices of Grant Kier [who will fish with us during Group One] and the Five Valleys Land Trust that he runs, are now to be restored and dedicated to public open space in perpetuity.
Now, is that good news, or what?!?
So, indeed, “G” is for “Gotcha” and for any number of other g-words that will now send this out of state developer back to where he came from with his tail fully between his legs with not-so-fond memories of what it is like to mess around with Mother Nature, good common sense and Rock Creek Ron and his friends!
Bueno, bueno, bueno!!
RCR---<’///><
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