Conservation

The Nature Conservancy Purchases 161,000 acres in New York

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY TREY GARRISON PUBLISHED AUGUST 2007 The Nature Conservancy purchased 161,000 acres of Finch Paper Holdings forestlands in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. The $110 million deal, which works out to approximately $683 per acre, was announced on June 18 and…

Tagged with: Adirondacks, Finch Paper Holdings, John Hancock Life Insurance Co., Nature Conservancy, New York, Stephen Small, Trey Garrison
Posted in August 2007, Conservation, Feature, Magazine, News Desk, Northeast, Regional News, Taxes, Timber, Topics, Trey Garrison

Francis Ford Coppola: The Land Report Interview

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JULIE BLACKLIDGE PUBLISHED JULY 2007 You’ve seen his work. Chances are you’ve tasted it as well. The winner of five Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola has also won rave reviews for his wines. His first release, a 1977…

Tagged with: California, Francis Ford Coppola, Gustave Niebaum, Inglenook, Napa Valley, Queen of the Napa Valley, wine, winemaking
Posted in Conservation, Farming, Feature, July 2007, Magazine, Pacific, Regional News, Residential Property, Topics

How Safe Are the Nation’s Wildlife Refuges?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED JULY 2007 The White House accelerated funding for its Healthy Lands Initiative this year, allocating some $3 million to the Bureau of Land Management. The money must be spent on restoring or maintaining natural habitats on…

Tagged with: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Bush Administration, CARE, Congress, Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement, Jim Saxton, Joseph Guinto, National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Posted in Conservation, Federal Policy, Joseph Guinto, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Public Land, Recreation, Topics

Is the Clean Water Act Polluted?

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

You know the big mud puddle that forms on your back 40 every time it rains? The Environmental Protection Agency might want to come inspect it. At least, that’s the concern of groups that oppose a law that would rewrite…

Tagged with: Congress, Environmental Protection Act, EPA, James Oberstar, Joseph Guinto, Nebraska Farm Bureau, Rob Robertson
Posted in Conservation, Joseph Guinto, June 2007, Magazine, News Desk, Topics

North Carolina Land Disappearing

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Development could devour nearly 2 million acres of North Carolina’s cropland and forestland over the next 20 years, according to a report by the Environment North Carolina Research & Policy Center.

Posted in Conservation, Farming, June 2007, Magazine, Recreation, Regional News, South, Timber, Topics

Preserving Endangered Species for Profit

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

Who can save the Alabama red-bellied turtle? Maybe your accountant can. He or she will have a chance if Congress passes new legislation that would give tax breaks to landowners who act to preserve species like the Alabama red-bellied turtle,…

Tagged with: Alabama red-bellied turtle, Dan Young, Endangered Species Act, ESA, Joseph Guinto, Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee
Posted in Conservation, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Taxes, Topics

Will Conservation Easement Tax Breaks Be Extended?

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Act now or forever lose your easement. A tax break for conservation-related land donations-known as conservation easements-is about to expire. That is unless Congress does something about it. The tax break, signed into law…

Tagged with: conservation easements, Joseph Guinto, Land Trust Alliance, taxation
Posted in Conservation, Joseph Guinto, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Taxes

Tom Brokaw: The Land Report Interview

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE PUBLISHED MAY 2007 Tom Brokaw has had a front-row seat at some of the most momentous events in recent history, yet to hear him tell it, what happened on an isolated river bank on his Montana ranch…

Tagged with: A Long Way From Home, Buck Brannaman, Hungarian partridge, KMTV, KNBC, landownership, Meredith Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Montana, NBC, Red Brokaw, sharp-tailed grouse, South Dakota, The Greatest Generation, The Horse Whisperer, The Today Show, Tom Brokaw
Posted in Cattle, Conservation, Equestrian, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Hunting, Magazine, May 2007, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, Water, West

End of the Conservation Reserve Program?

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Land Report Editors

BY JOSEPH GUINTO PUBLISHED APRIL 2007 With the Bush administration backing off on the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), conservation and hunting groups fear the 22-year-old program once dubbed “Noah’s Arc for Wildlife” is a sinking ship. Backers of the CRP,…