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Personally I would probably consider a wood-cabin hippie commune pretty far removed from 'development'.

• prawn 15y ago
  Having rubbish/refuse management under control would help a lot.
  • sliverstorm 15y ago
    Hippie communes don't always seem to have that down... You'd think with the excitement over compost, they'd be able to figure out things like "clean" and "sanitation"... Note: Not directed at all hippies.
• pbhjpbhj 15y ago
  By development we mean, I think, altering the land use for human habitation/recreation/industry. Here it's arguably a mixture of habitation and recreation. Putting humans on there is going to alter the eco system unless they're going to (at great expense) take away all their leavings, not fell timber, not catch any rabbits for food, not fish, etc.. The place looks pretty small I'd say any habitation conflicts really with the aim of natural conservation. That said I think I'd love to live somewhere like that - don't think my family would move with me though.