Defending the Mound

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This story is going to blow up fast. Right in their back yards and they won't like it.

FLOWER MOUND — Ever since this former frontier settlement was incorporated 50 years ago, town officials and residents took pride in protecting their slice of rural paradise along Grapevine Lake.


Town leaders fashioned one master plan after another to protect surrounding ranches, open landscapes, clusters of live oaks and other “ecological resources” from the threat of urbanization as the town flourished, eventually becoming one of America’s fastest-growing cities in the late 1990s.

The town even installed a wrought-iron fence around the town’s namesake — a 50-foot-high mound brimming with wildflowers — to protect the area. But a new intruder looms — bulldozers plowing up the old prairie to make way for gas wells, compressor stations, storage tanks, drilling pits and pipelines.

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http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_flowermound_0328.228a7ab69.html

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1. heavy industrialization

Unfortunately you know how this usually goes - it goes the way of the industry with the money on their side.