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Wildlife, Shmildlife
USDA head suggests harvesting switchgrass on conservation land |
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04 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:25 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Tuesday that it would be a "great idea" to allow farmers to grow and harvest biofuel-bound switchgrass on land currently set aside as wildlife habitat. More than 34 million acres in the U.S. are in the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to convert cropland to native grasses and keep it largely untouche ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, Department of Agriculture, energy, habitat loss, habitat protection, news (all these topics) |
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