The following appears in the November Four Corners Free Press.
The suspense is over, Red McCombs and family have decided to appeal Judge Matsch’s May decision which nullified the 2015 “Village at Wolf Creek/LMJV, landswap agreement with the Rio Grande National Forest/US Dept Agriculture.
There's much to be said, but here I focus on the headline quote from Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture’s attorney William J Leone a top notch legal gunslinger at Norton Rose Fulbright* who assures us:
“The Leavell-McCombs Joint-Venture believes strongly the project is a good project and the Forest Service did everything it needed to do to study the environmental impacts of that project.”
Good for who? Good for what? What good will it be for the Rio Grande National Forest?
What good will it be for the Alberta Park watershed at the source waters of the Rio Grande River? What good will it be for the wellbeing of this wildlife corridor and its occupants? What good will it be for tax payers and local governments who are left holding a boondoggle?
