The Mountain Resources Commission is developing a status report that will be called the WNC Sustainability and Vitality Index. The report has something to do with a near-comprehensive compilation of data about the region’s ecosystem, and lots of those nebulous words and phrases that make one feel green. The US Forest Service appropriated $140,000 for the study.
The seventeen-member advisory commission was formed, at least in terms of ephemerides, after the midnight hour of the 2009 legislative session.
“They are bound by law not to go past midnight unless they climb up on a ladder and literally stop the clock. That bill passed with the clock physically stopped, and it was a miracle it got through. Mountain legislators are the key to it passing,” [MRC member Jay] Leutze said.
