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Persistence and Partnerships Both Key to Land Access for New and Beginning Farmers
October 01, 2024
Organizations in New Hampshire and elsewhere in New England are providing new and beginning farmers with tools and support to secure farmable land.
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Who’s Buying Nebraska? Philly organic farm is 2nd-biggest buyer of Nebraska farmland
September 13, 2024
The Flatwater Free Press analysis shows that seven of the top 10 land buyers in Nebraska are headquartered outside the state.
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Bay Area conservation group backs San Benito land use measure
August 13, 2024
Former county supervisors say the initiative will stifle commercial growth and deprive the county of much-needed revenue.
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As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out
July 24, 2024
America is losing farmers. This is the role land values play.
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What a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for the West
July 22, 2024
Harris has prioritized protecting public lands and pursued accountability for polluters, but her track record on tribal affairs is more complex.
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Wyoming bans conservation bidders from oil and gas lease sales
July 15, 2024
Wyoming has narrowed its definitions for who can bid on state oil and gas lease parcels, disqualifying parties that intend to conserve the land rather than produce the mineral resources.
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As private interests turn profits on public lands, wildlife and taxpayers pay the price
July 11, 2024
Why does the public put up with corporate welfare, wildlife slaughter and other government policies it so clearly opposes?
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On the Chopping Block
July 10, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management plans to raze 380,000 acres of pinyon-juniper forests vital to Nevada tribes.
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Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail still incomplete nearly 30 years later
June 28, 2024
The campaign to complete a 17-mile segment between Gordon and Rushville started roughly 20 years after a now-defunct railroad sold hundreds of miles of abandoned rail stretching across northern Nebraska.
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Wyoming and Utah sue feds to halt controversial ‘conservation rule’
June 19, 2024
Environmental groups hail the measure, which Gov. Gordon says is part of Biden’s attempt to kill Wyoming’s fossil fuel industries.
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Zoning in Huntington held a Vermonter back. So he moved his house to Bolton.
June 19, 2024
The adjacent towns have different land use rules for forested mountain areas. One resident acted on the opportunity.
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As Ohio clamps down on clean energy, recent changes make it easier to force landowners to allow oil and gas drilling
May 15, 2024
Streamlined legal requirements and economic factors explain the jump in orders since 2020 to let petroleum companies drill on dissenting owners’ land.
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It was once his family’s farm — the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — but now we all own part of it
March 14, 2024
Part of the Charlottesville First Person series – in partnership with Charlottesville Inclusive Media – Philip Cobbs tells the story of his birthplace, and why we should all know its history.
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Nearly 900,000 acres of Montana in access limbo
March 11, 2024
Without a test case to decide the legality of corner-crossing in Montana, nor guidance from lawmakers, public lands in the state remain out of reach.
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How did mountain lions become a bargaining chip in a political debate over Utah’s public lands?
January 30, 2024
The changes made to the state’s hunting laws kicked off a contentious and ongoing political battle that has provoked a lawsuit against the state and pitted some of Utah’s most influential subcultures against each other.
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