Plainly put, the developer is writing public-land policies. And the Forest Service rubber stamps them as their own with no public input or process whatsoever.

We plan to develop on the land of a service apartment project with an estimated GDV of RM218mil, with tentative selling price of about RM800 per sq ft.

It looks like most of this is small in-fill development. As large tracts of land in the urban service boundary vanish, this is what is supposed to happen ? small in-fill projects.

We are the only forest service in the West attached to a land grant institute,

Consolidation activity is actually a signal that service providers are scared and will start spending money again. Equipment companies are long-term beneficiaries of this and frankly, I think that's what the bond market is smelling out,

We're having tremendous problems with phone service. The reporters can't dial in here. The land lines are all messed up. Communication is a very, very big problem.