{"id":17145,"date":"2017-10-19T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=17145"},"modified":"2017-10-14T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T17:14:40","slug":"mountainjournal-unnatural-disaster-will-americas-most-iconic-wild-ecosystem-be-lost-to-a-tidal-wave-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/mountainjournal-unnatural-disaster-will-americas-most-iconic-wild-ecosystem-be-lost-to-a-tidal-wave-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"(MountainJournal) Unnatural Disaster: Will America\u2019s Most Iconic Wild Ecosystem Be Lost To A Tidal Wave Of People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>Before us, and stretching for nearly 40 miles to the next muted horizon is the Gallatin Valley, one of the fastest-growing semi-rural settings in America. Carpenter, known for his work as a career land use planner, says it won\u2019t be long, given current trend-lines, before the vast chasm of space fills in with exurban development.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s a fact in the Anthropocene: places grow and inevitably change. I\u2019ve been fortunate to view some of the more spectacular undiscovered ones firsthand in my reporting around the world, but what Carpenter says has radically altered the way I think about the place I call home\u2014the place that I assumed given the huge base of public lands would always be protected.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s made me realize no other models from elsewhere can be imported to resolve what\u2019s currently happening rapidly in Greater Yellowstone, the wildest corner of the Lower 48 states.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainjournal.org\/the-wildest-ecosystem-in-america-faces-death-by-too-many-people\">Click here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainjournal.org\/the-wildest-ecosystem-in-america-faces-death-by-too-many-people\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/yellowstone-e1508001249844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Before us, and stretching for nearly 40 miles to the next muted horizon is the Gallatin Valley, one of the fastest-growing semi-rural settings in America. Carpenter, known for his work as a career land use planner, says it won\u2019t be long, given current trend-lines, before the vast chasm of space fills in with exurban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17147,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145\/revisions\/17147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}