Northampton County May Preserve 380 Acres More: Panel Urges Saving 4 Tracts. They May Be Bought for $792,000.
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By Paul Muschick, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 12--Northampton County Council will be asked to approve four open space preservation projects totaling about 380 acres at a cost of about $792,000.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 21--A proposal to offset the future loss of Monterey County farmland to development in the proposed county general plan provoked heated protests Wednesday before county planning commissioners.
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Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land to real estate developers and local...
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By George G. Landis, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 4--Two Berks County organizations have received grants through the state Department of Agriculture's Agricultural and Rural Youth Grant program.
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By Jack Brubaker, Lancaster New Era, Pa.  Dec. 13--The Lancaster County Commissioners this morning approved  preservation easements on five county farms totaling 370 acres.
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By Jeffrey S. Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 9--Camden County could get revenue from a 490-acre landfill even while opponents try to keep it from getting built.
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By S. Heather Duncan, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 17--Developers who own the Oaky Woods Wildlife Management Area in Houston County are requiring that the state pay 24 percent more this year for the privilege of managing wildlife and public hunting on the land.
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By John Cramer, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jan. 31--A Botetourt County couple has put 265 acres into a conservation easement, joining a growing number of Western Virginia landowners who are protecting their property from development.
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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 Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 6--Over the past 10 years, the North Branch Land Trust in Trucksville has preserved almost 7,000 acres of natural areas in Luzerne, Wyoming and Susquehanna counties.
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By Jen Degregorio  A 40-acre swath of land for sale near Deep Creek Lake could help the Garrett County vacation community create more commercial development and extend its appeal to year-round tourists.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--It's a commonly held view that farm property owners, left to their own devices, would want their land to be zoned as residential so they could reap the benefits of asking for higher prices for it.
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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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The public is invited to an informal open house Monday to discuss salvage options on the Bland Mountain Fire. The August fire burned about 1,700 acres of Bureau of Land Management land, and the agency is considering salvaging up to 400 acres of that.
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By Lena Warmack, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 17--Developers with one of Catawba County's largest proposed residential developments are expected to seek rezoning on more than 2,000 acres this spring.
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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By Eric Aasen, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 23--COPPELL -- The land that the Coppell school district wants to condemn near North Lake should be valued at $9 million, a group of special commissioners determined Friday.