Group Seeks Tax Measure to Save Farmland, Natural Areas
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 9--A group of Boone County residents plan to lobby the Missouri General Assembly next year to legalize a new tax that could be used to safeguard farms from development.
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By Gail Smith-Arrants, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 22--Resurrection of a wetlands Land near 2 schools will be restored to its former life-rich state Gail Smith-Arrants   It's a tranquil but neglected spot, a slice of old farm bottomland.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  County planners have received dozens of requests, mostly from environmental groups, urging more time to add their comments before this week's final hearing on the first phase of the huge Newhall Ranch project.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee, under pressure to make changes in decades-old subsidy programs, voted yesterday to offer farmers an alternative safety net that lawmakers said will provide better protection against falling incomes and will save as much as $4 billion over the next five years.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 4--An open-space fund that's supported by Ocean County property  taxpayers will lend Stafford nearly $2.4 million to fulfill its obligations  for preserving Pinelands forest.
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By THOMAS J. GILMORE  THE FUTURE of the Garden State Preservation Trust, New Jersey's funding mechanism for open space, farmland and historic site preservation, is uncertain.
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Science & environment: Ban and taxes to curb blot on landscape that threatens health and causes floods
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By Steve Tetreault  By STEVE TETREAULT  STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU  WASHINGTON - Nevada lawmakers reintroduced a bill on Monday seeking to transfer 80 acres of federal land in Summerlin for a cancer research and treatment center, medical offices and a park.
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Farmers who provide "bed and breakfast" for wild birds could help reverse the decline in farmland species, experts say.
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A contentious measure to gradually move up the time property owners pay their county property taxes will get a second chance this week in the Michigan House.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 24--Sarasota County's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program purchased a .22-acre creekside property.
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To help homeowners with high property taxes, Governor Deval Patrick is proposing to extend a disputed measure that temporarily allows municipalities to collect a greater share of taxes from business properties.
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The bobwhite quail, which is disappearing in the Southeast, can make a comeback and add millions of dollars to the rural economy if landowners are willing to make changes in the way they manage their crops and timber to protect the birds' habitat, biologists say.
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By Tony Spinelli, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--EASTON -- The company that owns much of the protected woodlands in Easton would like to give hikers a chance to enjoy the great outdoors.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, government officials, farmers and environmentalists have been trying to find a way of prevent dangerous agricultural runoff from polluting the Delta and other state waterways.
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By Tom Shaw, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 17--State lawmakers continue to propose ways of keeping money in the pockets of landowners whose property is in the so-called greenbelt program.   State Sen.