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138 <br /> a <br /> s f s <br /> � If <br /> No <br /> := TM <br /> IN <br /> IS <br /> NNI <br /> L IN <br /> 4 IN IF <br /> Vol . 12, No . 4 July—September 2001 <br /> MarylandCreates 3 1 ( T ' b G1� . c- t .KS. 2tiY 5 7.`-bit y'f4 h� .i xfT Y T It f' ter ,t`'' o,s1' . . '. _� y- �- <br /> GreenPrint Progra Editorial: Christopher Leinber er of <br /> p g <br /> Arcadia Co . explains how changing real <br /> 0 Maryland ' s new GreenPrint Program aims to preserve estate finance is the key to improving real <br /> a statewide network of green infrastructure that links estate development , <br /> protected lands of high environmental value . <br /> Legislators this spring approved $35 million in first- <br /> year funding for Maryland' s new GreenPrint Program Award: International Paper honors T <br /> (410 / 260 -8705, www . dnr . state . md . us / greenways / <br /> an Oklahoma conservationist and a <br /> greenprint), which gives the state a new tool to protect Michigan school teacher for their <br /> more of the 1 . 5 million acres of environmentally signifi- environmental efforts . <br /> cant, undeveloped land in the state . <br /> Lawmakers allocated $ 8 . 75 million of first-year fund- Readings : Reinvigorating urban parks and <br /> ing for the state Agricultural Land Preservation Founda- designing safe communities . <br /> lion (410 / 841 -5860 ) to buy conservation easements on <br /> farm, forests and timberland . The state Department of <br /> Natural Resources (DNR) will spend the remaining $26 . 25 <br /> million on acquisition of land and easements . Gov . Parris Small Tracts : Boise residents vote to protect <br /> See GreenPrint, page 8 open space, Pennsylvania ekes out a lead in <br /> the farmland preservation race and <br /> Americans opt for mass transit over cars . <br /> Fund Protects Land in Maryland, <br /> Florida , Virginia and California State Action : Legislators in four states <br /> DI The owners of a 324- acre farm that harbors nesting bald approve bills to protect more open space . <br /> eagles and a rookery of herons along the Chesapeake Bay <br /> recently sold their land to The Conservation Fund for pres - <br /> ervation. Maryland paid the Fund $7. 25 million to obtain <br /> a conservation easement on the Gately' s Holly Beach Corporate Notes : American Electric <br /> Farm, one of the last undeveloped peninsulas on the bay' s Power buys Louisiana land for a major <br /> western shore . Maryland combined $ 1 . 9 million of Pro- carbon sequestration project, Toyota <br /> gram Open Space money with $ 5 . 3 million in federal fund- tabulates its environmental progress, <br /> ing from the Interior and Transportation departments to the paper industry nears its 507o paper <br /> acquire the easement. The Fund plans to give the farm, recovery target and Kodak donates 2, 500 <br /> located south of Sandy Point State Park in Anne Arundel IN <br /> County, to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for use as cameras to help communities envision a <br /> an environmental education center . The Fund also has more attractive future , <br /> secured a North American Wetlands Conservation Act <br /> grant to protect and restore wildlife and waterfowl habitat <br /> See Land, page 7 <br />