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World & Nation
Agriculture: Many trying environment-friendly practices are stymied by inability to get subsidies designed to help them.
July 20, 2001
Parks eye federal funds for wider pastures
April 27, 2009
The Sierra Nevada’s rural communities share more than 400 miles of the granite mountain range and an unswerving conviction that the region should not be dictated to from afar.
May 16, 2004
A conservation group struck a $76.2-million deal with a paper company to buy 296,000 acres of forest and wilderness that stretch across three Northeast states.
Dec. 10, 1998
Politics
Wildlife: Sweeping measure would use funds from oil and gas drilling to buy property and protect habitats.
May 12, 2000
Business
Charity: Intel Corp. co-founder, who just gave $600 million to Caltech, promises $261 million to fund a biodiversity initiative.
Dec. 10, 2001
California
Buying Fryman Canyon in Studio City at the current price would be by far the costliest purchase ever made by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, giving the state parks agency and its conservationist allies a splitting financial headache.
Oct. 11, 1990
Gov.
Sept. 3, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
Twenty-one years of red tape and funding woes have slowed--but not defeated--conservation of David Alfaro Siqueiros’ controversial ‘America Tropical’ mural.
Nov. 22, 1998
The number of land trusts in California increased by 50% in the last five years, reflecting dramatic growth in private conservation efforts across the country.
Dec. 1, 2006