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 Stories About: Colorado AND dams AND energy AND food and agriculture AND logging AND placemaking
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Prairie Dogged
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18 Nov 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Prairie Dogged Faced with drought and plunging profits, Colorado farmers are under growing financial pressure to hawk their land to developers. Between 1993 and 2001, about 1.5 million acres of farmland in the state were put on the market and developed; 300,000 of the acres were sold in 2001 as a drought began to take hold. State officials are scrambling to come up with solutions that w ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, dams, energy, food and agriculture, logging, placemaking (all these topics) |
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