By Carl Abbott, Sy Adler, Margery Post Abbott
What occurs when... a coveted panorama turns into a battleground for 2 valid and compelling visions of the yank West? In reading the origins and implementations of the Columbia River Gorge nationwide Scenic sector, making plans a brand new West finds an enormous scan in mediating among the previous and New Wests.
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The Greenline Idea As an effort to plan for environmentally sensitive economic development, the Scenic Area faces the challenge of balancing very different and sometimes clashing activities within the same small space. In taking on this challenge, the legislation conceives of the gorge as a "greenline park" in the manner of New York's Adirondacks Park and the New Jersey Pinelands. Borrowed from Europe and the United Kingdom, the term comes from the idea of drawing a "green" line on a map to define a district of high scenic or cultural value and devising special land management regulations to sustain its character over time.
Portland investors built and managed the gorge's transportation system in its first three generations of settlement, and Portlanders have often led debates over the balance between economic growth and scenic preservation. " Page 24 The Metropolitan Frontier and the Western Rangebelt Over the last half-century, growth in the American West has concentrated in a crescent that sweeps from Texas through the Southwest and northward along the Pacific Coast. Western development has built on international trade and immigration, the expansion of the American leisure industries, and electronics and defense manufacturing.
In the gorge, in short, appearance is to be valued and conserved as much as natural systems. Within the greenline framework, the Scenic Area also attempts to balance and moderate the impacts of tourism. Its regulations limit the expansion of boardsailing sites and facilities and dampen the possibilities of large-scale resort development. By slowing "Aspenization"the headlong transformation of local economic and social systems that has occurred in many Western recreational hot spotsthe legislation may preserve economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs who can serve a limited market but who would be squeezed out by large-scale recreational investment.