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<blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 201715" data-attributes="member: 704"><p>When I was a kid my hometown was 450 people.&nbsp; My dad said at one time there was 1000 people.&nbsp; When I was a kid the town had three elevators, three bars, two grocery stores, three restaurants, a movie theater, a butcher shop, two drug stores, three gas stations, two implement dealers, and a sort of general store.&nbsp; Today it has one elevator and one gas station.&nbsp; What happened?&nbsp; Was it Nature Conservancy?&nbsp; Not a chance they didn't exist yet.&nbsp; There still is no Nature Conservancy land close to it.&nbsp; What happened was the expanded acreage of farms.&nbsp; My graduating class was 26 people.&nbsp; A few years ago it was down to two then they joined with a larger school.&nbsp; These large farms still pay property taxes, but there are not enough people on the land to support any of the businesses that had been there.&nbsp; Now they don't want the APP to have any because they want more.&nbsp; I have reservations about some things about APP, but I think hunting has a better future with them than with private ag land.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="PrairieGhost, post: 201715, member: 704"] When I was a kid my hometown was 450 people. My dad said at one time there was 1000 people. When I was a kid the town had three elevators, three bars, two grocery stores, three restaurants, a movie theater, a butcher shop, two drug stores, three gas stations, two implement dealers, and a sort of general store. Today it has one elevator and one gas station. What happened? Was it Nature Conservancy? Not a chance they didn't exist yet. There still is no Nature Conservancy land close to it. What happened was the expanded acreage of farms. My graduating class was 26 people. A few years ago it was down to two then they joined with a larger school. These large farms still pay property taxes, but there are not enough people on the land to support any of the businesses that had been there. Now they don't want the APP to have any because they want more. I have reservations about some things about APP, but I think hunting has a better future with them than with private ag land. [/QUOTE]

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