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Is the West Disappearing?
 
While out walking with my dogs on Greasy Spoon Road in my community in Birkenfeld Oregon,I got to thinking about a story I heard on Public Radio International yesterday morning on The Takeaway, a discussion about  
 
 
The Disappearing West
 
Here is a statistic: Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field of natural area to human development. 
John Hockenberry interviewed  University of Colorado Professor of History, Patty Limerick who specializes in the West and she didn't seem overly worried. She mentioned how this ebbs and flows in history as she put it, "I am very aware of the last two centuries in the West" and she found the word, "disappearing" as "an interesting term in and of itself....we're still HERE...quite a lot of it", she said, as she described where she was sitting in Boulder, CO looking around her while being interviewed. She went on to say what I totally agree with; replacing the word disappearing with the word "changing". She mentioned the fur trade, the Gold Rush, how people would swoop in and then when they exploited the resources which, in turn vanished, so did the people. As Patty put it, "...episodes over the last two centuries of people thinking, 'well, now it's gone'".
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