Over time, she wrote several books on birds in Minnesota. She served as chapter president of the local Audubon chapter and sat on many conservation committees and task forces, including, most recently, the Minnesota Forest Resources Council, a board set up through state government to mediate forest issues on public land. I felt that if you were interested in nature, you should be interested in conserving nature. Development along the shore fragments the forest with roads, buildings, and clearings. The greater danger, Green said, is the transformation of communities in ways that, taken as a whole, no one wants.
Money appears, land prices soar.
Locals can't afford to live in their own communities. The result is the same kind of strip development you might see in any American suburb. It brings a type of person who doesn't care. Driving the so-called scenic highway from Duluth to Two Harbors, I passed new houses, gift shops, and wide lawns. There were a few touches of the old North Shore, such as the cluster of fish shops at Knife River, with smoked whitefish and lake trout.