By Howard Meyerson from The Grand Rapids Press:
Bad ideas just never seem to stop coming around. The issue of selling public lands for some alleged greater good is one of them.
"The problem is once they are gone, they are gone forever," said Arwood, the executive director for the Heart of the Lakes Center for Land Conservation Policy in Lansing.
"Today everything is budget driven" he said. "Public lands are just viewed as low-hanging fruit. People just say: 'We have large tracts of land. Just sell them.' But we are trying to show and demonstrate the value of conserving the lands."
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While this article is about state and federal parkland sales, it clearly resonates with what's proposed in Royal Oak.
