Looks like a ranch.

Metz is a member of the Mountain View Town Council. Property records show he also owns a home in Mountain View under Hartwood Ranch LLC. https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/teen-searching-for-place-to-take-homecoming-photos-shot-in-the-face-by-homeowner-in-jefferson-county

It makes a lot more sense if you know how ranchers deal with “trespassing” animals.

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Ah, so that’s why it’s not a free and accessible article. This kind of article is tucked away.

Sounds like a pseudoscience with a few cults attached

Ostrolopettycus

Those people will keep having kids even if basically every sign pointed to the certainty of that kid’s life ending early during some kind of traumatic existential struggle.

They’ll keep having kids, but the kids won’t last as long.

Terry Truncate Table

You could try reading the article.

No

These are gadget huts. It’s made of techno-hopium material.

They’ll want money to do this in some poor rural area in a place where they can hardly name the native language. They think this will help poor people, but ignore the part where humans have always built shelters. If they fail to transfer the technology and know-how, then this technology is, over time, totally useless. And they will fail because such tech is usually patented and protected by IP laws.

If they try to sell this in the richer parts of the World, all they will do is make the environment and climate worse by promoting more suburban sprawl.