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Conservationist groups and Sierra Pacific Industries have reached a first-of-its-kind agreement that protects wet meadows and wildlife habitat in the headwaters of the Little Truckee River. read more »
With developers and speculators on the sidelines, desirable property is on the market for a fraction of its former price. read more »
A pedestrian and bicycle path connecting the popular Back Cove Trail with Portland's Bayside neighborhood will be built this fall. read more »
The U.S. Forest Service and local groups have opened the new Rock of Ages Trail about 15 miles southwest of Telluride, which eases access to Wilson Peak (elevation 14,107). The 3.7-mile hiking trail was a seven-year effort by the forest service, the Trust for Public Land, San Miguel County, the Telluride Mountain Club and the Colorado Mountain Club. read more »
A waterfront park opened on Roosevelt Island on Wednesday, adding to the number of waterfront spaces in development throughout the city. read more »
The High Line park, built on an elevated railway trestle in Manhattan, has become both a symbol and a catalyst for an explosion of growth in the meatpacking district and the Chelsea neighborhood. Now cities around the country, including Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis, are working up plans to renovate their aging railroad trestles, tracks and railways for parkland. read more »
Springfield Bog Metro Park is blooming with color. Springfield Bog features 108 acres of wetlands, including a 12-acre kettle bog, 5-acre bog and a now overgrown 91-acre wetland. The 256-acre park was created with help from the Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation agency. read more »
In this oped by TPL's Peter Harnik and Coleen Gentles the authors explain what a city park needs to be a successful health promoting solution. read more »
The LMF distribution depletes the funding source, news that comes on the heels of a new survey showing Maine voters overwhelmingly support land conservation. read more »
The Boy Scouts of America struck a deal with a national conservation organization to help preserve Pouch Camp, which many view as a vital program. read more »
Pouch Camp, the wooded Boy Scout camp on Staten Island that for 60 years has provided the pleasures of overnight camping and summer day camp for thousands of boys and girls, will be saved under an agreement announced this week. read more »
The Gallatin Valley Land Trust, along with the Trust of Public Land, celebrated a ribbon cutting for Bozeman's newest hiking edition- the Chestnut Mountain Trail. read more »
A pact to preserve 97 acres of coastal land in Biddeford may fail unless conservationists raise $1.6 million by Sept. 15. read more »
It started with a vacant lot. But where others saw a scrubby, rectangular piece of land strewn with rocks and broken glass, the refugees living in the adjacent apartments saw a soccer field and a gathering place and spot to grow vegetables read more »
The best public buildings, no matter how modest their size, accomplish two things at once. They do the job that people expect and then they go beyond expectations. read more »
