Land Trust Director Retires: Anne Jennings Was Instrumental in Setting Up Congaree National
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By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 4--Ann Jennings left the Congaree Land Trust at the end of 2006, ready for the next stop on an environmental trip that began with recycling drives before placing her in the middle of the fight to save Congaree National Park.
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Antoinette Smith, a native of this city, lives near Mosby Court, a public housing development built here about forty years ago. She calls it the &quot;unpromised land&quot; because &quot;there
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 28--Betsy Markey, north central regional director and Zane Kessler, north central regional representative for U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., will conduct office hours in Greeley today.   The event, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 12--Nancy Holliday is hoping messy yards like the one near her Columbia home on Jean Rae Drive will soon be a thing of the past.
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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE  DENVER - Don Stites and Marion Vaughan bought land in the Rancho Colorado subdivision believing that someday they'd have water. Years later, they still have to truck it in.
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By Patty Machelor, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 15--A plan to help preserve the Southeast Side's Fantasy Island trails area has received an award from a national group called American Trails.
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By Amy Robinson, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 2--A wholesale land company based in Southern Colorado has changed its name, but continues to provide the same services.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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Steve Oristaglio, who helped guide Putnam Investments in the aftermath of the scandals that engulfed the firm in October 2003 over market timing, will retire this year, Putnam said. Oristaglio, 49, served as right-hand man to chief executive Charles ''Ed" Haldeman Jr. during the tumultuous period in which the firm tried to recover both its reputation and business after being ...
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HOOPERSVILLE, Md. -- After Annie E. Wroten died in July 1903, she was laid in a red-brick vault in a little cemetery here among tomato farms and loblolly pines. Almost 104 years later, she's about to be buried at sea.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Gloria McKenna had given up on the home she'd shared with her husband for decades and was looking for a smaller, more affordable place to live before the government changed a key program Tuesday.
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Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. (NYSE: PCL) has promoted Laura B. Smith  to vice president and treasurer. In this role, Smith will oversee Plum  Creek's corporate planning and treasury  functions.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 2--When it comes to saving many significant tracts of open space in the state -- land that should remain in its natural state to protect Connecticut's quality of life -- it's now or never.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation held a benefit picnic June 23 to celebrate the opening to the public of Philip Johnsonâs 1949 glass house, located on 47 acres.
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NISQUALLY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Wash. -- Farmland that was drained and diked more than 100 years ago would turn back into salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon under a 15-year plan for the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
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Historians and conservationists are breathing a little easier after the Scenic Hudson Land Trust bought 336 acres of forest in President Roosevelt's old estate.
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By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN  Town of Grafton  Ken and Marjorie Helms have lived on a farm along I-43 here for most of their 60 years of marriage.  But the days of Ken, 86, and Marjorie, 84, handling the rigors of farm life passed long ago.