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COMMON GROUND VOL, 11 NO. 4 MAY/JUKE 2000
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<br /> Lakes in New York's Adirondack Moun- ® No time to drive cross-country? See what
<br /> The Conservation Fund tains are taking longer to recover from acid Matt Frondorf saw on his trip from the
<br /> Vital Statistics deposition than lakes elsewhere and may not Statue of Liberty to Golden Gate Bridge . The
<br /> Land protected by TCF and recover at all without further reductions in San Antonio, Texas, engineer hooked his
<br /> partners, 2000: acid deposition, a congressional study says . odometer to a 35-mm camera, which auto-
<br /> Acres protected: 3,236 Although emissions of sulfur dioxide and ni- matically snapped a picture every mile of his
<br /> Est. value: $7,876,236 trogen oxides and deposition of related sulmor 3,304-mile journey, which is online; mile-by-
<br /> Cumulative land protected, fates and nitrates have remained stable or mile, at http : / / kodak. com / go / milemarkers .
<br /> 1985-2000, by TCF and declined, nitrate levels increased in 25 of 52
<br /> partners: Adirondack lakes, according to "Acid Rain: M The nonprofit sector created 1-in-4 of
<br /> Acres protected: 2,264,750 Emission Trends and Effects in the Eastern Maryland 's new jobs over 10 years although
<br /> Est. value : $ 1,075,341 ,594 United States " (RCED-0047, 202 / 512-6000, it represented only 8 . 6 % of total employ-
<br /> www. gao . gov) . Scientists think surrounding ment, a new study shows . The state' s 195,414
<br /> TCF's three-year average watersheds are incapable of using the ni- non-profit workers, who outnumber em-
<br /> fund-raising cost: Crates, a plant nutrient, which then flow into ployees in manu urin the fact indus
<br /> 2% of total income g iTY,
<br /> the lakes . A 1995 estimate by the Environ- earned $6 billion in 1998, more than 7% of
<br /> The Conservation Fund is mental Protection Agency that 43 % of the the state ' s payroll. Half the state 's private
<br /> a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit mountain lakes would become acidic by 2040 nonprofit jobs are in the health field, 20 % in
<br /> organization established to appears to be understated, the report said , social services and 17% in education. Non-
<br /> advance land and water EPA also predicted that 9 % of mid-Appala- profit employment growth has been robust
<br /> conservation in America , chian streams and 4 % of southern Blue Ridge among culture and recreation organizations,
<br /> The Fund is a member of streams would acidify by 2040 . growing by 107% between 1989 and 1998 .
<br /> Earth Share and participates Nonprofit wages were com etitive with for the Combined Federal p g p
<br /> Campaign as #0930 . 0 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation profit pay in industries where both are ac-
<br /> has doubled its five-year goal of preserving five, according to "Maryland Nonprofit Sec-
<br /> rO. Earth Share 250,000 acres in California after meeting its tor : A Major Economic Force " (www ,
<br /> original goal in less than two years . In Janu- mdnonprofit. org / MdReport. pdf) by Johns
<br /> ary 1998, the foundation launched a program Hopkins University and the Maryland Asso-
<br /> to award $ 175 million in grants for acquisi- ciation of Nonprofit Organizations .
<br /> Conservation Leadership tion of land and development rights in the
<br /> Courses 1Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada region and ® Ranches in the Colorado Rockies will
<br /> "Conservation Options : along the central coast . By year' s end 1999, disappear unless local and state officials re-
<br /> The Land Protection the foundation had awarded only 42 % ($ 73 form policies that promote the development
<br /> Toolbox," June 11-14, million) of the $ 175 million in grants to pre- of ranchettes over the preservation of com-
<br /> Shepherdstown, W.Va . serve 271 ,800 acres . It plans to award $35 mercial ranching, a new study says . State
<br /> Contact: Land Trust million in 2000, a third of the foundation's land use policies favor recreational, second-
<br /> Alliance, 202 / 6384725 . $ 100 million annual conservation grant pro- home developments by holding down costs
<br /> gram, the largest in the country. for land speculators, who will pay up to 100
<br /> The Practice of Environ- times the agricultural value of ranches and
<br /> mentally Sensitive 3, vel�San ® If most of the 21000 brownfield sites in can subdivide it into 35 acre or larger parcels
<br /> opment," June 22-23, San �
<br /> 210 U . S . cities were redeveloped, they would without review or approval by any govern-
<br /> Francisco, Calif. Contact: create 550,000 jobs and generate up to $2 . 4 ment body. Lawmakers need to elevate the
<br /> Urban Land Institute, billion in tax revenue, says the U. S . Confer- conservation of ranch land to official state
<br /> 800 / 321 -5011 . ence of Mayors . Officials from 118 cities, who policy, according to "The Last Roundup :
<br /> "Conserving Agricultural said they already are well positioned to How Public Policies Facilitate Rural Sprawl
<br /> Lands, " June 26-29, handle such a resurgence, estimated they and the Decline of Ranching in Colorado 's
<br /> Racine, Wis . Contact: Land could support 5 . 8 million new residents, Mountain Valleys, " ($9 . 95, 800 / 3704879, ex-
<br /> Trust Alliance, about the population of Chicago and Los An- ecutive summary, www . farmland. org) com- .
<br /> 202 / 638-4725 * geles combined, without adding appreciably missioned by the American Farmland Trust.
<br /> to their infrastructure . Officials .cited a lack of The state ' s conservation easement program
<br /> funding for cleanups, liability issues and the also must be expanded to give ranchers a
<br /> need for environmental assessments as key financially attractive alternative to selling
<br /> roadblocks to brownfield reuse, according to their land to developers . Cattle raising in the
<br /> "Recycling America 's Land : A National Re- 32 counties in the Colorado Rockies contrib-
<br /> port on Brownfields Redevelopment Volume utes one-eighth of the state ' s agricultural
<br /> III " (202 / 293-7330, www .usmayors . org) . output and one-fifth of its agricultural jobs .
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