Louisiana's--and America's--energy logistics depend heavily on humble Louisiana Highway 1, which is the only land-based way to access the coastal port and runs less than two feet above water under normal conditions.
With a conservation easement, you give some or all of the development rights on your land to a government agency or not-for-profit (there are more than 1, 700 local land trusts), and you get a federal income tax deduction for the gift (the difference in the value of the land before and after the easement is in place).
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To prevent that, he wants the village's land expanded 20-fold, to 500 hectares (1, 235 acres).
In large-cap land Citigroup has attracted the most assets (1.8% of the large funds' aggregate).
Spending oodles on marketing, Mr Citron has persuaded 1.6m Americans to ditch their land-line telephone company.
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This record has been obtained and continuously updated by sensors onboard a series of land-imaging satellites that began with the launch of Landsat 1 in 1972.
Delta on the contracts currently points to a less than 1% chance the options will land in-the-money, which is consistent with the collapse in the value of the contracts to mere pennies today.
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Liverpool, perhaps tired after their gruelling 1, 200-mile journey by land across Europe, will be grateful that they will not have to recover from a two or three-goal deficit following a poor game only redeemed by two good saves by goalkeeper Pepe Reina.
Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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For years, the 1, 000-acre stretch of undeveloped land, bordering on an industrial zone, was of little interest to anyone.
In his rustic home tucked between orange and avocado groves, Cunningham wearily recalls wrangling with Roski over an odd 1, 200-acre piece of unincorporated land known as the "donut hole" because it is surrounded on all sides by Redlands.
Goal for flat land is 20-30 hectares (49.4 to 74.1 acres) and for mountainous areas 10-20 hectares (24.7 acres to 49.4 acres).
The 400-plus campsites set on 1, 900 acres of land fill up in July and August since sites are spacious, private and affordable, even by camping standards.
The proposals were for the 21 turbines to be sited over around 3, 450 acres (1, 397 hectares) of crown-owned common land mainly used for sheep grazing about nine miles (15km) north east of Carmarthen.
The two packages of land - one at Homelands Farm 2, the other at Cleevelands - could see about 1, 000 new homes built alongside the 450 homes currently being put up at the site known as Homelands 1.
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They used two specially-equipped Land Rovers to reach the group, who were trapped in a snowdrift at 1, 800ft.
Looking to land a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, the Hoyas squandered an early 16-point cushion against Cincinnati and fell behind briefly in the second half before clamping down with their signature defense.
In 1790s Georgia the decision by politicians to preserve for the public a 1-million-hectare swath of former Indian territory known as the Yazoo Land Grant spawned a rash of duels between real estate developers, loan sharks and legislators.
Located about 435 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, the Category 1 hurricane is not forecast to hit land.
More than half (57%) of the 1, 898 fatal transportation-related incidents occurred on highways, and involved motorized land vehicles.
In June 1992, President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a "framework agreement" (1) in Washington that provided for the complete elimination of all multiple-warheaded land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (MIRVed ICBM) systems.
Then in 2007, around 1, 500 tonnes of waste was dumped on land next to the Foryd Bay nature reserve - a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
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Those who think the Earth has been fully explored should think again--we know about as much about our oceans as explorers did about the Earth's land surfaces 1, 000 years ago.
The Wirral Waters scheme includes plans for high rise-buildings, green spaces and 13, 000 homes built on 1.7m sq m of land around the borough's docklands.
Perched on a remote hilltop, this 1, 600-year-old monastery faces five separate lawsuits contesting its right to retain land that church leaders say they have owned for centuries but have been unable to register because of bureaucratic stonewalling.
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