Is this booming Northwest land a paradise or disaster waiting to happen?

It was here before anyone made a map and called this corner of it the Pacific Northwest.

"To me," said David McCloskey, waving an aging hand toward tidelands formed millenniums ago, "it’s an energy field."

By William Yardley

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