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Opinion: Enterprise South Nature Park deed restriction protest is premature

Staff File Photo / Austin Fisher, front, and his friends ride along the TNT mountain bike trail at Enterprise South Nature Park in 2019.
Staff File Photo / Austin Fisher, front, and his friends ride along the TNT mountain bike trail at Enterprise South Nature Park in 2019. Staff File Photo / Austin Fisher, front, and his friends ride along the TNT mountain bike trail at Enterprise South Nature Park in 2019.

We’re so quick to jump to conclusions today.

For four or five presidencies now, involving leaders of both political parties, we’ve been told it’s the end of the country as we’ve known it. For decades, we’ve been told global warming, now adjusted to climate change, will bring about the end of mankind within a finite period. Every year, we’re told this hurricane season will be one of the worst ever. And alarmists tell us the next COVID-19 is right around the corner, and this contagion will be even worse than the 2020 pandemic.

We’ve seen this phenomenon play out locally with the recent announcement about a preliminary proposal concerning Hamilton County parks that would preserve 1,300 acres at McDonald Farm in perpetuity for the potential business use of some acreage at the Enterprise South Nature Park.

Among the fears that have been voiced:

› They’re going to take a third of the nature park for industry.