{"id":41,"date":"2006-05-02T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/wilderness-protection-good-for-economy\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T17:28:57","slug":"wilderness-protection-good-for-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness Protection Good for Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/455944nm05-02-06.htm\">ABQjournal: Study: Wilderness Protection Good for Economy<\/a> By Tania Soussan, Of the Journal<\/p>\n<p>    DOWN TO EARTH: Permanently protecting the Organ Mountains and other special lands in Do\u00c3\u00b1a Ana County is likely to give the region an economic boost, according to a new study from the Tucson-based nonprofit Sonoran Institute.<br \/>\n    Environmentalists, local elected leaders and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., have been touting the benefits of designating thousands of acres of wilderness.<br \/>\n    The institute&#8217;s study found Western counties that are similar to Do\u00c3\u00b1a Ana and have wilderness outperform those that don&#8217;t in employment and wages.<br \/>\n    In addition, entrepreneurs who create high-wage jobs tend to pick areas with a high quality of life, including protected lands and outdoor recreation, the study says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Study: Wilderness Protection Good for Economy By Tania Soussan, Of the Journal DOWN TO EARTH: Permanently protecting the Organ Mountains and other special lands in Do\u00c3\u00b1a Ana County is likely to give the region an economic boost, according to a new study from the Tucson-based nonprofit Sonoran Institute. Environmentalists, local elected leaders and Sen. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wilderness Protection Good for Economy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}