Woman Gives Woodsy Park to Roanoke County: The County's Board of Supervisors is the Beneficiary of Sarah Martin's Lifelong Appreciation of Nature and Wildlife.
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By Cody Lowe, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 20--The insistent shush of the little stream was clear and bright, even though it was well out of sight and probably 100 vertical feet below the wooded path.
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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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By The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 14--One consultant plus two master plans equals the potential for a municipal masterpiece.   Residents and officials of Roanoke city and county should compose their parks and recreation master plans with broad, bold strokes.
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The recent purchase by Hollins University and other buyers of about 235 acres of wooded land on Tinker Mountain, a Roanoke Valley landmark, benefits the university, residents of the region and even people passing through on Interstate 81.
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THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  Dare County plans to donate 34.4 acres on Airport Road on Roanoke Island to the University of North Carolina for a new Coastal Studies Institute campus.   The state approved the transfer of land last week, according to a Dare County news release.
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By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 19--Nature would be treated with a gentler hand when some of the remaining rural areas of Douglas County are developed, under policies up for approval by the county.
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By Marni Pyke  mpyke@@dailyherald.com  The DuPage County Forest Preserve District is doing what comes naturally at Springbrook Prairie.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 13--Warnings about eating fish contaminated with toxic chemicals have been extended upstream from Lake Crabtree County Park along Crabtree Creek in Wake County to Cedar Fork District Park in Morrisville.
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By Kelly, Lisa  ABSTRACT  Huggins Island, a Significant Natural Heritage Area in Onslow County, North Carolina, was incorporated into Hammocks Beach State Park in 1999.
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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 Tim Thornton, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 11--Mickey Apgar doesn't like to speak to crowds, but the Elliston resident hopes he'll be talking in front of a big group at Monday evening's Montgomery County Board of Supervisors meeting.
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By LAWRENCE TANE III  The Virginia Department of Transportation intends to go ahead with bridge-building plans in Richmond County that a federal agency warns will affect a tidal creek's population of bald eagles.  The U.S.
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Bob Thompson makes a career out of something most of us would pay to do. "I'm from an outdoors family," the Columbia County man said.
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Linda Pelzman appreciates the beauty of the outdoor world, sometimes pulling her children into the yard to gaze at a full moon or peer into a dense fog. An educator and founder of a summer camp, she only wishes her enthusiasm was fully shared.
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By Elias E. Lopez, The Miami Herald  Feb. 8--The Palmetto Bay Village Council voted 4-1 Monday to ask the county to provide management plans for a proposed wetland project at Bill Sadowski Park and Nature Center, along with a guaranteed budget for its future maintenance.
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Johnstown village manager Sarah Phillips traveled to Bulgaria last week to provide her expertise in waste management for a composting program there.
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By Michelle J. Lee; Journal Environment Writer  A 43-acre stretch of woods and wetlands along the Scituate and Glocester border will be open to the public and protected from development, thanks to a donation by a nature enthusiast almost 40 years ago.    In 1969, Ralph W.