The Conservation Fund in the News
May 21, 2015
Susan Nusser, Urban Milwaukee, 21 May 2015 – When Kevin Shafer became Executive Director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District in 2002, one of the first things he did was disconnect the computer program that controlled the Deep Tunnel overflows. “We used to blame the program for the overflows,” he once explained.
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May 20, 2015
Emma Breysse, Jackson Hole News & Observer, 20 May 2015 – Luke Lynch started the Wyoming chapter of the Conservation Fund in 2006.
A year later he set what is considered the record for laps of Glory Peak in a single day, completing 12 in 13 hours.
Five years after that he accepted a Public Lands Foundation award for Public Lands Stewardship.
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A year later he set what is considered the record for laps of Glory Peak in a single day, completing 12 in 13 hours.
Five years after that he accepted a Public Lands Foundation award for Public Lands Stewardship.
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May 17, 2015
Marti Maguire, The News & Observer, 17 May 2015 – There’s a certain irony in the fact that the Rev. Richard Joyner’s church sits in what is considered a food desert, surrounded by vast tracts of farmland. Yet with most of that land devoted to large-scale farming and the nearest grocery store more than 10 miles away, the congregants at Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church subsist on the type of diet to blame for so many of our country’s health problems: fried, fatty, high on sugar and salt, low on vegetables.
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May 15, 2015
Margaret Fisher, Kinston Free Press, 14 May 2015 – The area will soon have 19 new beekeepers. Greene County Extension Master Gardeners, in association with the Neuse Regional Beekeeping Association and the town of Snow Hill, has been awarded an $8,200 Creating a New Economies Fund grant from The Conservation Fund’s Resourceful Communities program.
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May 15, 2015
Jill Cowan, The Tennessean, 15 May 2015 – The land was for decades her family's farm, 91-year-old Mary Moore said, gesturing to a small pond and rolling expanses of green sprinkled with tiny yellow flowers behind her.
She remembered orchards of apple and pear trees. She remembered playing among the grass, trees and daisies, where she spotted hawks, foxes and ducks.
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She remembered orchards of apple and pear trees. She remembered playing among the grass, trees and daisies, where she spotted hawks, foxes and ducks.
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May 14, 2015
Hampshire Review, 14 May 2015 – White Horse Mountain was officially sold today. The nonprofit Potomac Conservancy completed its purchase of the 1,700-acre mountain that runs from Springfield to Green Spring along the west side of the South Branch.
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May 6, 2015
Brad Rich, Tideland News, 6 May 2015 – Thursday afternoon, attorneys for the state of North Carolina, a major conservation organization and for John L. Hurst of Onslow County and his sister, Harriet Hurst Turner of Raleigh, closed on a deal that added 290 acres of Hammocks Beach State Park and earned Hurst and Turner $10.1 million.
April 24, 2015
Duncan Adams, The Roanoke Times, 24 April 2015 – The cluster of young and lean Appalachian Trail through-hikers acknowledged that they’d never heard of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
