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l.• - � _ 3 - TM Vol. 11 , No . 4 May /June 2000 California Devotes Billions to Parks Editorial: Agriculture secretary Glickman and Water calls for a renewed national commitment to the conservation of private land . ® Californians approved a $2 . 1 billion parks bond, the largest such bond in U . S . history, and a $ 1 . 97 billion water bond by nearly 2-to- 1 margins on March 7. Small Tracts : Crossing the country on the The approval of more than $4 billion in environmental Web, hogging the floodplain in North spending should lead to the preservation of hundreds of Carolina, and finding 200, 000 species . thousands of acres in the nation' s most populous state . A broad-based coalition of supporters, from the Planning and Conservation League and the Sierra Club to the California Taxpayers Union and the state Chamber of Commerce, Corporate Notes : IBM and Johnson & raised $ 7 million to convince voters to approve the bonds . Johnson to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Passage of the parks bond comes 12 years after the last and Unilever agrees to buy fish from such bond was approved . In the interim, the state has well-managed fisheries . See California, page 6 Water: Polar ice caps aren't what they used Fund Protects Lana in Six States to be, and neither is the nation's enforcement of its water pollution permits . ® The Conservation Fund has helped protect a new national park in Colorado , fruit farms in Michigan, a reclaimed mine in Ohio , wildlife areas in Texas and Vermont and a national 'park inholding in Washington . Model Program: The Rivers and Trails program helps jump -start hundreds of ® Texas—The Fish and Wildlife Service has boosted the community projects around the nation , size of the Lower Rio Grande National Wildlife Refuge by 20, 000 acres (25 %) since February 1999 with help from The Thank you : A thanks to more than 100 Conservation Fund . In the latest acquisitions, which total 7,271 acres, the Fund worked with more than 60 landown- readers who contributed nearly $5,000 to ers, some of whose families have held the properties since the COMMON GROUND Research Fund , the original Spanish land grants . The Fund also helped the refuge acquire a 12, 63 &acre tract a year ago . Funding for the recent purchases came from the federal Wetlands Re- serve Program and the Migratory Bird Fund . Refuge man- Databank: Rhode Islanders face $ 1 . 5 billion agers hope to restore tidal flows to the area ' s wetlands, in extra taxes if current sprawl patterns which were cut off in the 1930s when the Brownsville Ship continue for, 20 years . See Rio Grande, page 3