tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23187699820037593662024-11-05T20:10:42.406-07:00An exploration of where the natural and built environment meet.MDLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10145141165349365531noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2318769982003759366.post-81304720389398004322009-03-20T20:09:00.003-07:002009-03-20T20:29:23.481-07:00

I spent the greater portion of the day collecting data for a GIS project I'm working on in Tucson. Eventually I hope to compile enough usefull data to lead to the development of a unique form of 'greenways' that weave through the city.  The idea comes from the Ironwood Tree Experience's GreenLots and Kids Corridor projects.  I'm conducting the reasearch to find out where these Lots and Corridors

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An estimated 6,000 acres of open space are lost each day, a rate of 4 acres per minute. Looking ahead, the Forests on the Edge project estimates that 44 million acres of private forest lands could experience sizeable increases in housing density by 2030. Public forests are also affected -- the new National Forests on the Edge publication estimates that 21 million acres of private rural lands near

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New Tax provisions pass in the 2008 Farm Bill The Farm Bill (H.R. 2419) which Congress enacted on May 22, 2008 with an override of the President's veto, renews a powerful tax incentive which has helped conserve a million or more acres of natural areas, farms, and ranches across the US. The incentive had expired January 1st, but is now retroactive to the beginning of the year and will last through

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A sense of place requires more direct contact with the natural aspects of a place, with soils, landscape, and wildlife. This sense is lost as we move down the continuum toward the totalized urban environment where nature exists in tiny, isolated fragments by permission only. Said differently, this is an argument for more urban parks, summer camps, greenbelts, wilderness areas, public seashores.

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Developer shows that creating homes can also mean preserving habitat and beauty and sets a new standard of best practices. These new standards include:• Protecting the land and its wildlife corridors forever. Ninety-five percent of the land at Three Canyons is permanently preserved as open space.• Creating a land management plan that is designed to replenish the environment through human activity

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Arizona has approximately 9.28 million surface acres and 9 million subsurface acres of Trust lands. Scattered throughout the State, the Trust lands are extremely diverse in character, ranging from Sonoran desert lands, desert grasslands, and riparian areas in the southern half of the state, to the mountains, forests and Colorado Plateau regions of northern Arizona. The majority of the Trust lands

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The Cause:The Senate Public Lands Package, which not only has the National Landscape Conservation System Act contained within it, but also contains new Wilderness, Monument, and NCA for such great places as New Mexico, California, and Idaho to name a few. These are all new units for the Conservation System."From Wilderness, and NCAs and Monuments to important legislation on National Trails, we

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You can view the preliminary segments of the new show 4EVERGREEN13 at: http://www.youtube.com/user/4EverGreen13

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"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use our natural resources, but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob by wasteful use, the generations that come after us." Theodore Roosevelt, speech, Washington, D.C., 1900"

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