I would say about 2/3 of the area is natural RAH. Sure isn't as nice as yours!
You guys were talking earlier about change, updating to new ways of thinking, avoiding future development, etc. There is something that we came across on a vacation years ago that I think is a bit pertinent to all of that.
We take vacations that are a bit different than what most think as "usual". I like the back roads and the small towns, and talking with the locals when we can. We were up in the northern US somewhere, I can't remember exactly. Possible the upper Dakotas, or such. Up comes a museum sign, we pull in and check it out. Nice place, very low key. It was a local history museum of the area, which dealt mostly of surviving and farming equipment was a big part of that. A little bit of machinery to show folks were displayed here and there. I start talking to the lady at the counter, asking her questions of this and that, things about what's in the show room and why did they do it this/that way. She refers me to some old guys out in the parking lot who are eying over my van, and trailer, which is another short story in itself.
I go out and start talking with the guys and they have us go into this monstrous building. Inside is filled with tractors and equipment of all kinds. Hundreds of them,... small, big, equipment, combines, etc. They don't open this up for the general public because it is so full that you have to crawl over, and under, to see all of it. It all runs, and once a year they pull it all out to run them. There was one guy that was in charge of how it all fits! With out him they would be lost. Anyway, we come up to this tractor that has the typical steering wheel for it's time period, but there is something more to it. There was a set of ropes and such, attached to it in a peculiar way. Curious, I asked what the deal was with it. He explained that when the steering wheel came out, the old guys had a hard time with it, couldn't cope with it I guess. So they attached a set of reigns to it and fashioned it in a way so it would drive like a team of horses!! ... Change is hard, and sometimes takes a long time to happen.
