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		<title>New Mexico Adopts the Natural Heritage Conservation Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Mexico Legislature approved a new state law, the Natural Heritage Conservation Act, during the 2010 session.  Governor Richardson signed the bill which takes effect March 19th.  The law creates a fund that will partially  finance acquisition of conservation and agricultural easements, and the cost of restoration projects on private working lands.  The legislature  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the Website Afloat: A Transition Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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The Working Lands Coalition Website Workgroup  recommends a transition plan that will broaden support for the Internet based resource about Idaho&#8217;s private working lands.  The planning document outlines the  strategy to fund  the operation of www.IdahoWorkingLands.com.  Please  review the plan, and use the comment form below to respond in one of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Committee Hearing &#8211; Working Lands Fund &#8211; S 1343</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Resources and Environment Committee has scheduled a hearing on the Idaho Working Lands Fund Act.  The bill proposes that the Idaho Legislature establish a Working Lands Fund  to protect and enhance the benefits that working lands provide to Idahoans.  The Fund will accomplish this purpose  by providing a &#8220;source of funds to complement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Working Lands – News Clips Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[View State of Working Lands in a larger map
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		<title>Bibliography Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Senate Committee Introduces Working Lands Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Resources and Environment Committee voted to print (introduce) the Working Lands Fund Act.  The voice vote action at the Committee&#8217;s February 10th meeting had one dissenting vote.  The Chief Clerk assigned number S1343 to the bill, and stakeholders can track the status of the bill as it progresses through the legislative session.
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		<title>Homes on the Edge &#8211; A Burning Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wildland fire suppression costs consume $3 billion dollars from the  federal  budget.  A primary factor that contributes to the increased costs  is the protection of private property in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).  Headwaters Economics, a non-profit organization, reviewed the factors contributing to higher costs, and concluded that existing policy does not address the expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having Lots to Learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior to the real estate bubble, landowners and developers subdivided private working lands.  The speculative housing market drove real estate prices to values many multiples greater than values for forest, farm and ranch production.  The bubble residue left a pattern on the landscape of premature subdivisions &#8211; a configuration of building sites with no one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Unit Growth by County:  2000-2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change in Housing Units 
Residential housing increased within Idaho during the eight year period 2000-2008.  The period covered the residential real estate boom and the beginning of the housing bubble;  the total housing count increased by 110,000 units.   The Bureau of Census reports the distribution of the new homes across the state, at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustaining Utah&#8217;s Agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representative Jack Draxler (Logan, Utah) proposes a fund that will finance conservation easements on private land.  In the past 10 years, the state of Utah lost 500,000 acres of farms and ranches.  To slow the conversion, the bill proposes an Agriculture Sustainability Investment Fund.  If passed, the legislation will reallocate funds generated from an existing [...]]]></description>
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