These rural folks, living in the shadow of the majestic Mount Shasta, believe that they are being driven away so that their communities can essentially go back to the wild, to conform to a modern environmentalist ethos that puts wildlands above humanity. As the locals told it during the Defend Rural America conference Oct. 22 at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds, environmental officials are treading on their liberties, traipsing unannounced on their properties, confronting ranchers with guns drawn to enforce arcane regulatory rules and destroying their livelihoods in the process.
Certainly the Boulder County Commissioners would like rural Boulder County to go “back to the wild”. Allocating their spending priorities as shown..
2000 Boulder County Budget:
– Road Fund = $2,620,709
– Social Services Fund = $2,325,0012011 Boulder County Budget:
– Road and Bridge Fund = $1,075,955
– Social Services Fund = $6,536,717
…is their first step in the battle to make living in the County prohibitively expensive.
Budget numbers courtesy of Don Wrege posting on Daily Camera message boards.
