Victoria Will Be Giving a New Face to Lone Tree Creek Basin: Project Will Cost Close to $700,000 to Landscape 170 Acres
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By David Tewes, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Feb. 3--People who live near or drive past the Lone Tree Creek flood control basin near Airline Road in East Victoria may find the area a little easier to look at after a landscaping project is completed this year.
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By Kira Millage, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 2--BELLINGHAM -- Time to start yard work. The Clean Green Transfer Facility opens Saturday.
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By JULIAN WALKER  The State Water Control Board has another lawsuit on its hands related to a proposed 165-acre mixed-use development in Chesterfield County.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb. 20--BELLINGHAM -- The city, through its comprehensive plan, has a plan to acquire about 2,000 acres of park land by 2022.   It's ambitious, but it's a goal, not a contract, city officials say.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 5--CAMAS -- Plans are rolling to form a Camas-Washougal Metropolitan Park District and raise $20 million to $30 million to build a new community center to serve eastern Clark County.   The vote probably will come in the Aug.
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A Reston-based developer plans to build a major office park in Manassas aimed at the kind of companies in the biotech, technology, biomedical and government-contracting businesses that Prince William County officials say they are trying to attract.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.
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By Nicholas Azzara, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--MANATEE -- In the coming years, Manatee County's freshwater treatment plant will require significant upgrades, costing $50 million to $150 million, to meet tighter environmental standards.
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By John F. Bonfatti  While the state Department of Environmental Conservation finalizes a management plan for its nearly 3,000 acres in Zoar Valley, the Nature Conservancy is adding property to its holdings in and around the scenic Cattaraugus Creek gorge.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 10--COLUMBIA -- Negotiations restored most of the money for Horry and Georgetown county projects in the $7.4 billion state budget except $5 million for Interstate 73/74 and a cut of $1 million in funds for beach drainpipe removal.
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By Paul Dellinger, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 16--FAIRLAWN -- The first of several funding applications aimed at creating a New River Valley broadband telecommunications system will go out next week.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 4--The Fountain Creek Vision Task Force has applied for a $75,000 grant through the Arkansas Basin Roundtable to pay for a professional facilitator in its quest to develop a master plan for future action on Fountain Creek.
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By Bob Schwarz, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 17--The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation has approved roughly $201,000 in grants for 15 land-use and recreation projects in its third-quarter granting cycle.
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By Backus, Perry  The Blackfoot Challenge and Nature Conservancy's plan to preserve up to 88,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Co. lands in and around the Blackfoot Valley took a big step forward late last week.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7432 or langhornet@courierpress.com  Vanderburgh County is poised to buy nearly 74 acres of heavily wooded, often flooded state surplus land -- but county officials aren't sure what to do with it if they get it.
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By Doug Donovan, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 18--Mayor Martin O'Malley is set to announce today a $6.2 million plan to lease 48 acres of undeveloped land in Mount Washington for 80 years, a deal that adds the most significant swath of open space to Baltimore's park system in decades.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 7--BELLINGHAM -- The Fairhaven Highlands developers will pay a consultant to create an environmental impact statement for the controversial project, a decision developers and the city say will provide transparency.