Ninety miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan State started as the nation's pioneer land-grant university, charged with using public land to teach practical subjects to augment the liberal arts tradition.
"Indian cottonseed producers actually realize almost seven times the financial benefits growing cottonseed for local seed companies than if they were to sell that same yield at farm gate prices"--using their land, that is, primarily to produce cotton rather than seed.
Forward reconnaissance units mapped the land from high observation points, using maps and hand-held GPS devices to identify targets accurately.
To meet the 2022 mandate of 35 billion gallons of biofuels using corn-based ethanol, crop land dedicated to corn will have to increase from 88 million acres to 233 million acres.
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The Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue Centre is supported by Queen's Brian May and runs on two sites, using land owned by Mr May, for long-term and specialist rehabilitation.
This information has been provided by Radarsat, a Canadian satellite capable of detecting detailed water and land features through thick clouds, fog and rain using synthetic-aperture radar equipment.
Each deal is different, but usually the Trust puts up some money to buy land and a local group puts up the rest -- though often using money from state and federal funds.
The Dodge Durango, Ford Explorer, Land Rover LR4 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee are built using a car-like unibody structure, but add a reinforced sub-frame and offer advanced traction management systems that give them added off-road and bad-weather prowess.
Survival International has helped lead a high-profile campaign against Vedanta's plans in India, where using land for industrial purposes is hugely controversial.
Essentially, do we farm extensively, using fewer inputs and more land, thus allowing some wildlife to co-exist on the same land as our farming?
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Mount Hood Meadows jammed a stick in Hanna's spokes: It agreed to buy the land and 100-yard drive to Skibowl's east parking lot, blocking Hanna from using it.
On the demand side, the Meeting explored three dimensions of securing additional financing for biodiversity through the GDI approach: using GDI certification within corporate biodiversity strategies and actions, bringing GDI-certified land management projects to market, and exploring the role of public funding for scaling up the GDI approach.
Ferozi also thinks that if the government will be using the people's land for the new national park, they should be compensated -- otherwise he sees it as an economic loss.
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It's noticeably larger than the company's more compact land-limited models, but there's no reason you wouldn't feel just as comfortable using this to shoot your child's first birthday party as you would their first scuba lesson.
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Biofuels -- Rising demand for food, which competes with biofuels for arable and pasture land, and a popular backlash against the subsidies they attract, will constrain the long-term potential for biofuels production using current technology.
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