East Kootenay Residents Land Use Coalition

What's at stake?

If it succeeds:

The Wildlands Project: An Introduction

Little known outside of the environmental movement, The Wildlands Project is the most ambitious, and far reaching attempt yet to reinvent the North American continent according to ecologically correct guidelines. Under this proposal, 50 percent of North America would be preserved or restored to wilderness for the preservation of biological diversity. However implausible their goal may seem, The Wildlands Project is well developed, well organized, and well financed.

Contrary to popular belief, preserving wilderness in the Rockies makes economic sense, says Ray Rasker.  In fact, it makes more sense than logging it, mining it or farming it.

Now, there are folks who will sneer at Rasker's assertion. They'll dismiss it as the pipe dreams of another environmental ideologue.

They'll call it bunk.

However, there's one small problem with that. Rasker is a resource economist. He holds a doctorate, and he's done a lot of research.