land-conservation

The Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, long after the 1950s infrastructure boom, so "all our [environmental] laws and regulations and public processes been designed around site-specific features," says Lawrence Selzer, president and chief executive of the Conservation Fund, a nonprofit land-conservation group that helped develop NiSource 's plan.

A Path to Simpler Permits Rob Curran 2010

She saved money from other jobs for years before she was able, by teaming up with a college classmate, Adam Wilson , to buy a farm through a nonprofit land-conservation group in 2009.

Tractor, Laptop: Family Farm Tools Sue Shellenbarger 2011

Also rejected was a provision that would have allowed state trust land to be sold in the service of "protecting" military bases, as well as one that would have transferred over $100 million from a land-conservation fund to the state's general fund.

Randall Amster: Pot Luck? Arizona Approves Medical Marijuana Amid Conservative Landslide Randall Amster 2010

Also rejected was a provision that would have allowed state trust land to be sold in the service of "protecting" military bases, as well as one that would have transferred over $100 million from a land-conservation fund to the state's general fund.

Randall Amster: Pot Luck? Arizona Approves Medical Marijuana Amid Conservative Landslide Randall Amster 2010

Under the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, the Bureau of Land Management is authorized to sell fragmented or isolated parcels of public land that are difficult to manage, as well as lands that may have residential or commercial value, and then use the proceeds to support land-conservation purposes.

Interior, Agriculture Secretaries to Purchase 5,026 Acres of Western Land with High Conservation Value 2009

The "green burial" movement, which eschews embalming, metal caskets and concrete grave liners, is also growing and is finding an unexpected symbiosis with the land-conservation movement.

A Serious Undertaking 2008

Anyone using the application sees ads, and an undisclosed portion of the revenue from those advertisers is donated to the Nature Conservancy, a land-conservation organization.

Money for Nothing 2008

Brooks explained that a local land-conservation organization — the Woodie Wheaton Land Trust — had just finished locking up the rights to most of the lake's developable shoreline.

Find Legendary Smallmouth Bass and Landlocked Salmon Fishing at Maine's Weatherby and Wheaton Lodges 2005

Tim Kaine said Tuesday he isn't backing off his goal of seeing 400,000 acres of Virginia protected from development during his tenure, despite a $13 million cut the General Assembly made in his land-conservation budget.

From On High 2007

The Progressive Conservative government of Alberta's draft land-conservation plan, made public this week, is reasonable and moderate; this approach is comparable to the ideas of Preston Manning.

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