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Sworn to Be Wild
House gives thumbs-up to conservation program |
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09 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 Some 27 million acres of federal land in the U.S. West and Alaska would be formally recognized as conservation-worthy under legislation passed Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The National Landscape Conservation System has been in place since 2000 to "conserve, protect, and restore these nationally significant landscapes," and the House legislation would make the program law. The ... |
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