Underused lands.

• Author: Gaffney, Mason
• Position: FROM READERS - Letter to the editor

Correspondent Ed Dodson raises an important but neglected issue in your January/February issue [From Readers]. What drives people to invade wildlands is not just their numbers, but the under use of more productive lands. A few thousand acres in apple orchards, for example, would meet the national U.S. demand. The very pleasant upper-middle-class suburb of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, houses 10,000 people per square mile, at which density the entire...