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- - <br /> r ti, a ` - - _ <br /> MOO: - <br /> T <br /> M <br /> I IF I, IF7 <br /> L`: <br /> {LdI%- <br /> IF. 41 <br /> IF <br /> - Y = 7 l <br /> IF L <br /> I IF <br /> IF FdnF <br /> Vol . 14, No . 1 January-March 2003 <br /> Conservation Fund <br /> Collects Top Ratings <br /> Editorial: How we think and talk about <br /> ® Worth (worth. com) and Forbes (forbes . com / charities ) open space influences how we value it . <br /> magazines have rated The Conservation Fund as one of <br /> the nation's top charities in their year-end features on <br /> charitable giving . The American Institute of Philanthropy Small Tracts : Japanese researchers link <br /> ( charitywatch. org) also recognized The Conservation Fund longevi <br /> environmental organ ty and open space , Atlantans <br /> as the nation' s top enviization for the sec-IF envision parks in their future, and the <br /> and year in a row . The Fund earned an A+ rating from AIP <br /> for spending 97% of its funds on programs while keeping European Union sees a future in greenhouse <br /> fundraising costs to 1 % . gas trading . <br /> ® The Conservation Fund has transferred 3,225 acres of <br /> forestland to the state of Florida for addition to Goethe Corporate Notes : Louisiana Pacific sells <br /> State Forest . Acquisition of th $2 .4 million inholding in thousands of acres for Texas refuge, and an <br /> Levy County, which the state has sought for years, has Oregon utility agrees to dismantle hydro <br /> helped link isolated tracts of the 11 -year-old state forest . It <br /> also provides habitat for the Florida black bear . The Con- dams to restore salmon runs . <br /> See Fund Protects page 3 <br /> Remembrance : Wallace Dayton helped save <br /> land and develop a new generation of <br /> conservation leaders . <br /> Big Year for Land Conservation <br /> ® Voters approved 139 of 187 conservation ballot mea- Reading: Releasing the inner hero within us . <br /> sures in 2002, generating $5 . 7 billion for land protection . <br /> On Nov . 5 alone, voters OK' d 94 of 111 conservation Thank you : COMMON GROUND thanks its <br /> ballot measures in 23 states, which earmarked $2 . 9 billion readers for their year-end contributions . <br /> to acquire and restore land for parks and open space . Cali- <br /> fornians led the nation in open space funding last year by <br /> passing two huge bond measures . The Proposition 50 wa- Conservation Fund News : Fund celebrates <br /> ter bond, approved by 55 % of voters in November, latest land protection efforts in Maryland and <br /> devoted $1 . 5 billion of the $3 . 4 billion total to open space launches Chesapeake Bay Initiative to protect <br /> protection. The November vote followed the March 5 another 100, 000 acres in the bay watershed . <br /> approval of the $2 . 6 billion Proposition 40, the largest <br /> park and environmental bond measure in U . S . history. <br /> In the only other statewide votes on open space fund- <br /> ing in November, Nevadans voted to spend $89 .5 million <br /> See Land Conservation, page 7 <br />