Conservancy Buying More Zoar Parcels ; Wants Donations for 400-Acre Tract
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By John F. Bonfatti  While the state Department of Environmental Conservation finalizes a management plan for its nearly 3,000 acres in Zoar Valley, the Nature Conservancy is adding property to its holdings in and around the scenic Cattaraugus Creek gorge.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 13--The cost of buying land to create parks, protect drinking water and preserve open space has increased nearly 300 percent in 10 years, say groups seeking additional state spending on land and water conservation.
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By RUSSELL MAX SIMON Journal Staff Writer  Homeowners in the Quail Run golf course development off Old Pecos Trail are opposing a low- and middle-income development planned right next door.
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By Paola Iuspa-Abbott, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 4--The planned annexation of nearly 2,000 acres west of Boca Raton by Broward County's Parkland could cost Palm Beach County thousands of dollars.
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By Paul Muschick, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 12--Northampton County Council will be asked to approve four open space preservation projects totaling about 380 acres at a cost of about $792,000.
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By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.
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The Agriculture Department offered &#36;2 million Thursday to help private land owners in four Western states protect the habitat of the sage grouse.
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By Elizabeth Ahlin, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 24--COUNCIL BLUFFS -- In an attempt to beat the clock on new Iowa restrictions, the City Council will consider Monday taking as many as 66 properties through eminent domain over the next year.
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By Todd Hollingshead, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--PROVO -- Some landowners who want out of Pleasant Grove have  taken their case to 4th District Court.    Stanley B.
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By JIM SKEEN\\ Staff Writer  LANCASTER -- Lancaster homeowners could be asked to finance millions of dollars for additional work in a proposed expansion of the sewage treatment plant.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--It's a commonly held view that farm property owners, left to their own devices, would want their land to be zoned as residential so they could reap the benefits of asking for higher prices for it.
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By JULIAN WALKER  The State Water Control Board has another lawsuit on its hands related to a proposed 165-acre mixed-use development in Chesterfield County.
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By Jane Glenn Cannon, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 28--NORMAN -- Retired educator David Miller hoped a donation toward the purchase of land next to the George M. Sutton Urban Wilderness would encourage others to do the same. So far, no one has followed suit, city officials said.
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The owner of Fair Oaks Mall has filed plans with Fairfax County to expand by 540,000 square feet, increasing its size by about a third.
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 8--The City of San Luis Obispo and local land conservationists have raised the money needed to preserve more than 700 acres of land that will expand the city's greenbelt.
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The state and federal governments should buy more land, and do so quickly, in order to restore the Everglades before the property becomes developed or too expensive in coming years, according to a new report.