| | Hi Jane,
As Jeremy said, some businessman might decide to keep the area untouched by civilization.
I suspect there are a few reasons why that generally doesn't and wouldn't happen. As David Bertelsen suggests in this fine artice:
http://SoloHQ.com/Articles/Bertelsen/Hey_Greenie,_Wanna_Get_Rich.shtml
the government is already in that business so it's hard to make a profit.
I'd also add that Hippies are generally dirt poor...not exactly a target market.
Combine that with the fact that what people generally want isn't just untouched nature, but solitude as well. That means you need a lot of land to satisfy each person or family (let's say you don't want to see or hear anyone else while there). That's a lot of land, and you can't expect much from poor environmentalists.
A more lucrative market would be semi-untouched setting, but with all the luxuries of home. A vacation spot for people with money who don't like sleeping in dirt, even if they like seeing it. In that case, they probably will have restaurants, cottages/condos, boat docks, horseback riding tours, etc. But that's because a lot of people would want them. Billboards seems fairly unreasonable. If there's any competition at all, the one without billboards would be preferred.
It's not what the greenies are looking for, though. They want large chunks of untouched land that they can use, and nobody else can. And they want it for free, of course.
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