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<br /> Pennsylvania now rivals Maryland as a States authorized a record $ 565 million in
<br /> The Conservation Fund national leader in farmland preservation, spending last year on bicycle and pedestrian
<br /> Vital Statistics according to the American Farmland Trust facilities, rail-trails and other federal trans -
<br /> Land protected by TCF (www .farmland . org ) . As of February 2001, portation enhancement projects . But more
<br /> and partners, 2001 . Pennsylvania had protected 186,321 acres of than $ 1 . 45 billion in available federal fund-
<br /> Acres protected: 60,226 farmland through the acquisition of agricul- ing remains unobligated . Alaska and Puerto
<br /> Est. value : $ 120, 616,884 tural conservation easements purchased Rico have obligated 100 % of their apportion-
<br /> Cumulative land protected, with $495 million of federal, state and local ment while Wisconsin ranked lowest with
<br /> 1985-2001, by TCF and funding . Maryland, a much smaller state, has 337o of its $ 109 .5 million obligated, accord-
<br /> partners * protected 185, 872 acres with $233 million, i
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<br /> followed protected : 3, 020, 012 followed by Vermont ( 88, 281 acres, $45 mil- portation Enhancements Clearinghouse
<br /> Est. value : $ 1 ,446,388,470 lion), New Jersey (70, 950 acres, $295 million), (888 / 388-6832, www . enhancements . org ) .
<br /> TCF' s three-year average Colorado ( 65, 265 acres, $32 million) and Nationally, 67 . 9 % of $4 . 52 billion in avail-
<br /> fund-raising cost: Delaware ( 60, 619 acres, $ 61 million) . able funding from fiscal 1992 to 2000 has
<br /> 217o of total income been obligated . Bicycle and pedestrian facili-
<br /> The Conservation Fund For the first time since the introduction of ties and rail-trails comprise $2 billion of the
<br /> is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit the automobile, transit use has grown faster total, with historic preservation ($778 mil-
<br /> organization established to than drivi
<br /> advance land and water ng in the U. S . for more than 3 years lion) and landscaping and scenic beautifica-
<br /> conservation in America . in a row . Recent government and industry tion ($ 547 million) the next most popular
<br /> The Fund is a member of figures show that in the past five years, trap- projects . Other state obligation rates and
<br /> Earth Share and participates sit use jumped 217o but driving rose 11 % , rankings (which include Puerto Rico and
<br /> in the Combined Federal Growth in driving was flat in 2000, the first Washington, D . C . ) * Wyoming-99 . 37o (3 ),
<br /> Campaign as # 0936. time in 20 years, while transit use grew 3 . 57o . Minnesota-99 . 1 % (4 ), Florida-95 . 1o' (5 ),
<br /> The figures represent a turnaround from the Maryland-67 . 6 % (32 ), Massachusetts—
<br /> early 1990s when driving grew steadily and 41 .37o' (50 ), Texas-39 . 2 % (51 ) .
<br /> P. Earth Share. transit use plummeted 11 . 8 % , according to
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<br /> the Surface Transportation Policy Project The double- digit annual hikes in environ- -
<br /> Conservation Leadership (202 / 466-2636, www . transact. org) . mental giving over the last few years
<br /> Courses slowed to a more moderate but still healthy
<br /> Laurance Rockefeller has completed a half- 5 . 71/o increase in 2000 . Environmental giving
<br /> " GIS Design for Regional century of family gifts to Grand Teton topped $6 . 16 billion last year, up from $5 . 81
<br /> Conservation Planning, "Nov. 5-9, Shepherdstown, National Park in Wyoming by donating the billion the year before, according to Giving
<br /> W . Va. Contact National remaining 1, 100 acres of his JY Ranch to the USA ($65, 888 / 544- 8464, www . aafrc . org),
<br /> Conservation Training National Park Service . The ranch "will stand published by the AAFRC Trust for Philan-
<br /> Center : 304 / 876 -7452 . for two principles essential to the long-term thropy . Of eight subsectors, hikes in dona-
<br /> "Environmental Ethics" well-being of our national parks, " Rockefeller tions for the environment ranked second in
<br /> (interactive TV workshop ), told Vice President Cheney, Interior secretary 2000, just behind the 5 . 8 % hike in giving for
<br /> Sept . 26-27. Norton and others at a May 26 ceremony. public or social benefit. Total giving reached
<br /> Contact NCTC : 304 / 876- "The importance of balancing preservation of $203 . 45 billion in 2000, a 6 . 61yo hike over
<br /> 7439 (content), 304 / 876- the land with public use and the importance 1999 . Giving by individuals rose 4 . 9 % , to
<br /> 7480 (registration) . of private-public partnerships . " The gift, val- $ 152 . 07 billion and giving by foundations
<br /> "Land Acquisition Law for tied at $30 million, comes 52 years after the jumped 19 . 6 % , to $24 . 5 billion . Bequest giv-
<br /> Federal Natural Resource family' s first gift-33, 000 acres—that created ing rose 2 . 6 % , to $ 16 . 02 billion, and corpo-
<br /> Projects (Basic)," what is now the heart of the park. By 2006, rate giving rose 12 . 1 % , to $ 10 . 86 billion.
<br /> Sept . 10-12, Albuquerque, private funding and an endowment will help
<br /> N .M . Contact NCTC : return much of the JY Ranch to a more natu- Calling all conferees : The Land Trust Alli-
<br /> 304 / 876-7455 .
<br /> ral state and build an interpretive center and ance will hold its 141' Land Trust Rally
<br /> 4 . 5 -mile nature walk. "Laurance' s magnifi- (www . lta . org, 202 / 638-4725 ) Sept . 29-Oct . 2
<br /> cent gift to the nation culminates a legacy of in Baltimore, Md . The Terrene Institute
<br /> Rockefeller conservation in Grand Teton Na- (703 / 548-5473, www. terrene . org) will hold
<br /> tional Park, " said John Turner, president of the Th National Mitigation Banking Confer-
<br /> The Conservation Fund and a Jackson Hole, ence in Washington, D . C ., from Feb . 27 to
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<br /> Wyo . , native who attended the ceremony . In March 1 , 2002 . Scenic America and EDAW
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<br /> the 1980s, the Fund facilitated a conservation Inc . will host the Scenic Summit (www .
<br /> easement on the JY Ranch in an exchange for scenicsummit . org, 303 / 494- 1246 ) from April
<br /> mineral rights in eastern Wyoming . 21 -24, 2002, in Denver, Colo .
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