Pot Growers Hid on 2 Acres of State Land
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By Josh Jarman, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  May 31--COMMERCIAL POINT, Ohio -- A highly sophisticated 2-acre pot farm found on state land yesterday is a new kind of drug operation for Ohio. And it might not be the only one.
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By Tom Shaw, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 17--State lawmakers continue to propose ways of keeping money in the pockets of landowners whose property is in the so-called greenbelt program.   State Sen.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Two men have been arrested for dumping dirt in a national forest.
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By Karen Branch-Brioso, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Sep. 15--TAMPA -- A 1,937-acre piece of northeast Hillsborough County  farmland and timberland moved a step toward development Thursday.
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CALLAWAY, Fla. - Help, police, someone stole my pot! A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were going to later sell it.
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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 NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press  A farming couple is still battling to prevent placement of a landfill near a national park.   JOSHUA TREE, Calif.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 7--GILROY -- A group of Hecker Pass landowners are dangling $2  million before city leaders in hopes of fast-tracking construction of hundreds  of homes on farmland and hillsides in west Gilroy.
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By Susan Salisbury, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Jan. 30--Glades-area farmers were scrambling Monday to line up protection  for their sweet corn and green bean crops as the coldest weather of the season  rolled into the region.
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Colorado is considering letting prison inmates work on private farms after farmers complained that an illegal-immigration crackdown has left them short-handed, officials said.
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By Anonymous  Farmers could be seen Thursday out in fields, preparing them for crop seeding, in a few spots in the Red River Valley in what is turning into a late spring, crop-wise. But most fields in the region remain too cool for fieldwork, with frost still in much of the soil.
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A shortage of natural gas besets the state's most populous area. In rural outposts, energy costs spike.
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By STACI MATLOCK  FOREST GUARDIANS  Santa Fe-based Forest Guardians is bidding for two more grazing leases totaling 2,000 acres of New Mexico state trust lands.
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In the next couple of weeks, workers will begin burying sewer lines, paving streets, sinking street lights and planting hundreds of trees as they lay the infrastructure for a $2 billion development on a 42-acre industrial tract along the Anacostia River.
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The American landscape is dotted with fewer farms as a result of consolidation and a movement of land to nonagricultural uses, the government said on Friday.
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Plant scientists who work to protect Red River Valley sugar beet fields from weeds and disease have helped farmers enjoy record crops in the last two years.
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By Greg Cima, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 1--MERNA -- A man who called police about a burglary at his home last month apparently didn't realize sheriff's police would smell the marijuana-growing operation in his basement.