Love it Till it's Ugly
I saw this article in the NYTimes about development in the Adirondacks. From the article:

“Forest slopes would be clear-cut to make room for new roads, driveways, parking areas, houses, lawns and accessory buildings,” John F. Sheehan, a spokesman for the Adirondack Council, an environmental group, said in an Op-Ed piece earlier this year in The Albany Times Union. “The resulting fragmentation would devastate native plants and wildlife that depend on undisturbed habitat.”

No matter how it's spun by developers, to put up housing and infrastructure, forest has to come down. I'm glad I already have pictures of the relatively unscathed wilderness.