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.

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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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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.

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Forward reconnaissance units mapped the land from high observation points, using maps and hand-held GPS devices to identify targets accurately.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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