Johnson Ranch to become public
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Shaded by a massive 400-year-old oak tree and perched above the rippling waters of the Pedernales River, it was known as the "Texas White House."
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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 Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 27--Residents are invited to tour Swift & Co.'s Greeley beef production facility in person.   The open house from 1-3 p.m. Sunday will give residents an opportunity to learn more about the company and the plant.
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By PAM ZUBECK THE GAZETTE  PUEBLO - In August 1962, President John Kennedy put a shovel in the ground to begin the transmountain Fryingpan-Arkansas River project.
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By Daily News  A hearing on a proposed 1,440-home development called Landmark Village, the first phase of the Newhall Ranch project, was moved to Feb. 28.
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By Russell Clemings, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 19--Major development projects in Madera County's Rio Mesa area are nearing milestones with the county Board of Supervisors expected to cast votes on the fates of several within the next year.
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By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Dec. 16--HAMILTON, Ga. -- During the 29 years since A. Stephen Johnson of West Point inherited all of the shoals area of Flat Shoals Creek, he has tried to keep the property in a natural state.
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Brooks Realty and Advisory Group, a firm that has thoughtfully developed  and sold more than 850 forty-acre ranch parcels and a total of over  35,000 acres of land in Wyoming -- more than  any other company in the United States -- has  now begun sales on Wild Horse Ranch at Lake Hattie in Wyoming.
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New development on the Tejon Ranch has environmentalists concerned about the health of a fragile landscape, where several distinct ecological regions converge.
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By JUAN-CARLOS RODRIGUEZ Journal Staff Writer  The final design for a South Valley park that would serve as a welcoming gateway to the neighborhood was unveiled Wednesday night, moving the project into the next phase -- figuring out how to pay for it.
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By Guy McCarthy, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb. 5--BEAUMONT -- More than 100 area residents attended open-house  meetings last month to learn more about how an electric utility's plans for  replacing transmission lines could affect them.
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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 William Presecky, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 11--Big Rock Township resident Marvel Davis knew in recent years that her 170-year-old family farm would be sold as open space eventually, free from the threat of development.
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Lady Bird Johnson will lie in state Friday through Saturday morning at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin. A public event will be held Friday at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Funeral services will be held Saturday at the Riverbend Center in Austin. On Sunday, a...
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CRAWFORD, Texas - The latest political battle over a war that ended three decades ago moved to President Bush&#39;s Crawford ranch Wednesday as former Georgia senator Max Cleland tried to deliver a letter demanding that Bush denounce an ad challenging
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By ? Scott Shackford, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif.  Jun. 13--The City of Barstow stands poised to declare the right to use eminent domain to take private property in order to assist private developers.