HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Tom Mccall
25 May 2016
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Tom mccall, land-use planning, and oregon"s environment. As cities are expanding, they are pushing in to farmland. This is decreasing the agriculture land in oregon. There has been a reduction of agricultural land by 20% since 1950-1965. Portlanders are really scared of portland itself turning into another la. For most of oregon"s history, economic development was always chosen over the environment: ex. This is where tom mccall came in: the state should not be a haven to the buffalo hunter mentality, to individuals so interested in money that they rape the land and worship the dollar. tom mccall. This buffalo hunter mentality overusing land, seen in the timber industry. It"s a wasteful mentality, a land should be a precious mentality. Native americans would use all of the buffalo; whereas those who expanded west just killed buffalo for sport and fur. They didn"t use as much of the buffalo nearly as much as the native americans: bill 100 and land-use planning.
