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Conservation Group Keeps Buying Land, Helping State Parks Grow

2013-11-16 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Working quietly and quickly, the Open Space Institute, a nonprofit conservation group, has bought acreage surrounding park borders, combining together smaller parcels as they come up for sale, and then selling them to the state, at cost or below. Using money from the Lila Acheson and Dewitt Wallace Endowment Fund, the group has led efforts to conserve 40,000 acres through 77 individual deals statewide; that represents more than 10 percent of the state park system's current 335,000 acres. "We can...

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