State Raises Acreage of Conservation Lands
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 20--Colorado increased land set aside in conservation easements more than 11 percent in 2005, bringing the state total to nearly 1.8 million acres, according to a group that wants to more than double that number in the next decade.
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By Ed Godfrey, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 24--he Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has bought 320 acres of land along the Lower Illinois River near Gore, the first purchase of property with Legacy Permit funds derived from special fees that sportsmen started paying two years ago.
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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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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 27--Thanks to Bob and Debbie Stuck, nearly 300 more acres in York County will remain undeveloped. We hope more land can be put aside through the incentive program used by the Stucks before it expires next year.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. May 31--More than 200 acres have been added to the Carrizo Plain National Monument as part of a program to protect the endangered San Joaquin kit fox.
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By Howard Yune, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 24--When Rolf W. Peter bought more 1,765 acres of pasture land in the Colusa County foothills in 1965, the Swiss-born engineer planned to erect a showcase of sports and weekend leisure there.
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By Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 15--Ranchers around the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site officially received news Wednesday that the Defense Department has approved the Army's request to start the process of adding 418,000 acres to the training area southwest of La Junta.
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By Steve Bennish Staff Writer  GERMANTOWN -- A plan to carve out a corridor of farms, fields and woodlands is continuing with recent negotiated conservation easements covering 1,100 acres near Twin Creek in Montgomery and Preble counties.
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The state of Maryland agreed to buy an 846-acre tract known as the Wilderness Ranch for $1.84 million to expand the 7,000-acre Garrett State Forest in western Garrett County.
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To the praise of environmental groups, President Bush proposed the largest-ever annual increase for the national parks yesterday. The Interior Department is requesting a $258 million increase in the parks' operation budget as part of a "centennial initiative" that aims to direct $3 billion from...
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A new guidebook has been released by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food to help watershed managers and other water education professionals improve the state's natural resources by urging citizens to adopt more natural resource-friendly practices.
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Federal land managers on Friday authorized up to 1,570 new natural gas wells over the next 20 years on a mountain plateau prized for its energy reserves &#151; and its wildlife.
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By Rob Pavey< Staff Writer  RAYSVILLE, Ga.- Soon after the government bought or condemned 150,000 acres of east Georgia farmland in the early 1940s to create the mammoth  Clark Hill Lake reservoir, foresters began the conversion of dormant cotton plantations to a new cash crop: timber.
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By Maria Armental; Journal Staff Writer  The plan to sell up to 50 acres of open space in Charlestown is seen as a way to help balance the state budget.
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By JAMES MINTON  The Nature Conservancy of Louisiana recently signed a purchase agreement that will add approximately 850 acres to the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge in West Feliciana Parish.
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California has become the first state to reward landowners for leaving forests standing to help control global warming, under a program adopted this week by the California Climate Action Registry.
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In part as a frugal move at least a dozen states have increased native plantings on their highway medians.