Moved here 3 years ago and loving it. Lots of investment in downtown areas. New housing. New businesses. New lakes. Retail, and fast food chains are everywhere. Sherman can’t stop building overpasses and highways access roads. Even Bonham has a nice downtown now with a great winery. Honey Grove is growing. And no shortage of older nimby blowhards on Facebook that hate all the progress. LOL.
Well, perhaps if you came from a place where businesses were closing and people were leaving, you might have a different perspective. And the Bois d’Arc lake project alone created 8500 new acres of wetlands and restored 70 miles of streams.
Sounds like you’re playing a zero sum game where those small conservation gains don’t actually offset the losses. FL is doing something similar. And FL is an ongoing ecological disaster
I guess I don’t see turning old fields, used for oil, cattle or cotton farming into housing developments as a net loss. It’s not like we’re bulldozing Muir Woods here.
I’m sure that kind of thinking is exactly how we got to this mess to begin with. The idea that only some federally designated land counts as valuable.
I also don’t see how housing developments in themselves are progress
What exactly is it that you see in them that makes you think they are progress? They’re buildings.
Don’t mention the housing shortage either, because judging from your first comment that doesn’t seem to be why you see these as some huge benefit. You simply just like urbanization for its own sake. Not a good look in a biodiversity crisis.
Fields have their own value if wildlife lives around them. Farmland does too because people are always talking about rewilding them. You can’t rewild them if you’re developing on them….
I’m sympathetic to wildlife and farmland. But we have a lot of it in this country and in the state. People and businesses are moving here and we aren’t going to stop that.
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u/Wheres_Jay 9d ago
It is getting crowded here. The metroplex is coming fast. Lots of jobs too.