Pueblos to Get 7,000 Acres of Forest Land
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By Staci Matlock, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Jun. 27--The U.S. Forest Service plans to transfer 7,058 acres of Santa Fe National Forest land to San Ildefonso Pueblo under a 2005 land claims settlement.
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By Mike Michaelson  When pioneers rolled their creaking covered wagons westward, land occupied by present-day Indiana was virgin prairie - more than 2 million acres of it, with stands of lush bluestem grass growing 10 feet tall.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 16--Pueblo faces threefold problems from Fountain Creek, all of them caused or aggravated by rapid growth in Colorado Springs, Jane Rawlings told members of the Pachyderms Republican club on Friday.
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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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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status.
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More than a million acres in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming have been affected by a pine bark beetle infestation, devastating forests and hunting alike.
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.
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By Tammy Alhadef, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--TRINIDAD -- Forty acres of land within the Spanish Peaks state wildlife area were removed from a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale after a protest by the Colorado Wildlife Federation.
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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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 STACI MATLOCK  A proposed forest restoration project on Rowe Mesa, southeast of Santa Fe, has been sent back to the Las Vegas (N.M.) Ranger District for more work, Santa Fe National Forest officials said Friday.
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The combined land surface of what some officials call the American GalÃ¡pagos is relatively small but the coral surrounding totals more than 5,000 square miles.
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By John W. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 18--SAN ANTONIO -- It's some of the most picturesque land around this sprawling city: 116 acres of craggy, oak-covered hills near the Government Canyon State Natural Area.
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By ERICA CORDOVA Journal Staff Writer  The Santa Fe County Commission is scheduled today to consider approval of a master plan for a 300-acre, mixed-use development located south of Eldorado on the west side of U.S. 285.
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By J. Ferguson, The Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff  Sep. 21--Despite plans to develop hundreds of acres atop McMillan Mesa,  the city of Flagstaff has reached a tentative agreement with developers to  preserve a significant tract of contiguous open space.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 12--A committee voted Monday to put efforts to study enlargement of Lake Pueblo on hold until next year and to spend the next 60 days reviewing how the decision will affect water storage agreements negotiated over the last four years.
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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.