I am asked to consider what this place will be like in 2040?
“Water as pure and soft as the dews of heaven, gushing from hill and valley." Minnesota Pioneer, 1849
I am a person of mostly European descent. In 1962 my mother and father built a house in what is now the suburbs. I grew up on a gravel road amidst prairie, forests, wetlands and oak savannah. I watched and mourned as the land around us was sold, surveyors staked out the land and