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New York Times: In 2007, the Nature Conservancy bought 161,000 acres of forest in the Adirondacks from the Finch, Pruyn paper company for $110 million.
The state of New York paid $30 million on Friday to secure extensive conservation rights on 89,000 acres of forest in the Adirondacks, another big step toward protecting lands once owned by the Finch paper company.
In exchange for the payment, the state got a legal document known as a conservation easement from the Nature Conservancy, the environmental group......
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New York State Buys Conservation Rights for 89,000 Acres of Forest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 30th, 2010
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