Picking up an older thread because the title is very appropriate.
This situation is playing out in the West....
"We, years ago, had 25% of the revenue generated off the National Forest that came into the county and two-thirds of that went directly into the Road and Bridge Department and one-third went to education," Chilcott said. "Well, we have stopped producing revenue off of our national forests, and that's directly impacted the service delivery we can provide for our roads."
The problem has been jolting the county for years. How to maintain hundreds of miles of paved roads with limited funds. Now, the county is looking to "de-pave" some roads in the Northern Bitterroot.
Here is what I am seeing. The Ecologist / Conservationist / Sierra Club / Tree Huggers / etc basically pressured the Politicians to shut down logging in the National Forest. Mills shut down, logging contractors went broke, etc... Now, some of the largest wild land forest fires in American history burn up millions of acres of marketable timber every summer. So, now people bitch about the dust from the roads blowing over into their house...
American's have got to be the dumbest civilization on the face of this Earth.
Growing money problem has Ravalli County looking at "all options" for maintaining the 300 miles of county roads
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