Save Mount Diablo Pays Down on Land in Irish Canyon
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 14--Residents of Tucson's far Southeast Side and others who oppose a plan to mine in Davidson Canyon are pondering their next move after a couple of recent setbacks.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 13--A federal magistrate's ruling could end, or scale back the scope of, the $5 daily user fees charged on Mount Lemmon and in Sabino and Madera canyons.
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A mountaintop property located near the Hollywood sign and once owned by Howard Hughes is up for sale.
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By Sophia Kazmi, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--Dublin and Livermore are at peace with each other over Doolan Canyon, a patch of open space between the two cities, north of Interstate 580: It will remain open space for the foreseeable future.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.  Last month, the Land Department rejected an administrative appeal filed by the county in December.
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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ORLAND - Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust's Campaign for the Wildlands has raised $2.49 million toward its goal of $2.86 million. The money will be used to conserve the 4,200 acres on and around Great Pond Mountain that the campaign purchased 18 months ago.
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By Mike D. Smith, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Feb. 4--Potential buyers who think they have plenty of time to shop for a  good deal before putting up cash for that coveted deer lease or quiet country  plot might not want to wait too long.
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Last August, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry pledged to boost funding for the national park system by $600 million a year by raising fees on mining companies. The National Mining Association immediately denounced the proposal, saying it would cost Nevada, a key battleground state, 44,000 jobs.
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Land purchase gives Fools something to watch.
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  The city of Albuquerque would spend up to $650,000 to preserve a chunk of land in the Sandia foothills under a resolution sponsored by City Council President Martin Heinrich.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 26--California electricity customers have paid $1 billion to the federal government to permanently store high-level radioactive waste, but the fate of a proposed storage facility at Yucca Mountain remains uncertain.
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By Shanna Hogan, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 5--Conservationists spent more than a year gathering 300,000 signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot that would preserve 694,000 acres of state trust land.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 8--The City of San Luis Obispo and local land conservationists have raised the money needed to preserve more than 700 acres of land that will expand the city's greenbelt.
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said  on Friday its preferred plan for the rim of the Roan Plateau in  western Colorado is to defer oil and natural gas drilling until  80 percent of anticipated wells are drilled below the rim.
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A parcel of mountaintop land behind to the famed Hollywood sign has been put up for sale, provoking outrage from Los Angeles city officials and residents worried that building there would spoil one of the most famous postcard views in the world.