Friday, December 01, 2006

CONSERVATION: Private U.S. landowners have set aside land comparable in acreage to the state of Georgia for conservation purposes.

A new tally of U.S. private land conservation efforts finds a boom in the number of smaller, local land trusts, particularly in the West, seeking to compensate for the 2 million acres of farms, forests and open spaces developed nationally each year.

Nature areas, wildlife habitat, open spaces, waterways, wetlands and other lands conserved through private means rose to 37 million acres - roughly the size of Georgia - from 24 million acres conserved as of 2000, the Land Trust Alliance said Thursday.

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