The Home of the Free and the Brave(s)

Yeah, it’s Thanksgiving, so here we “all” are, ready to hack up the turkey in celebration of “our” good fortune here in America. Why do I feel a little uneasy?
Maybe it’s because we started to wonder what kind of “holiday” fare the native people at the Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge on the Warms Springs Reservation in central [...]

Oregon A Model for Land-Use Planning

When Oregon voters last Tuesday approved Measure 49, a bill that will scale back a property compensation law passed three years earlier, they reinvigorated an important state-wide task force that will substantially review Oregon’s land-use system. The Big Look is back in business.
In a way, Oregon also resumed its status as role model for [...]

Oregon Voters Put Brakes on Sprawl

They were calling it a Ground War in Oregon.
Three years ago, Measure 37 was passed in Oregon and the floodgates of sprawl where opened.  Timber companies and other owners of rural land — including family farmers who were rightfully looking to protect or maximize their land assets — filed thousands of claims across the [...]

Weekend Land Sale in the WA. Palouse

We must be on some kind of mailing list. Look what popped up in the queue, just as we said we were trying to renounce our LandCrazed obsession! Red Tail Ridge is selling multi-acre home sites from $69K in Colfax, Washington.
The Palouse is just an amazing sight! Wheat fields rolling along like a grainy ocean [...]

LandCrazed in a Strange Time

It’s been awhile since we’ve posted here. I don’t think we’re any less LandCrazed, however, these are CRAZY times. The entire world seems to be shifting and sifting itself out in a vaguely pre-catastrophic manner. From the real estate/mortgage crisis that should continue to plummet our (highly manipulated and unsteady) economy to global warming, this [...]