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California revives program to buy water from farmers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSaying California's water reserves are all but gone, state officials on Thursday announced the revival of a dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from Sacramento Valley farmers and sell it to the thirstiest Southern California agencies in case this...Tags: Ventura (Ventura, California), Water Restrictions
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Public Enemy No. 1? The great grass debate
Special to The TimesIt's just grass, but don't tell Sheldon Lodmer, for whom the sight of a well-kept lawn borders on the transcendental. "It's very peaceful. It reminds me of openness and cleanness," says Lodmer, whose home in the hills above Malibu's Zuma Beach is...Tags: MySpace, Water Restrictions, Botany, Fertilizer, John Marshall
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Song, natural beauty draw visitors to Suwannee
Associated PressFANNING SPRINGS, Fla.—Drawn by an old familiar song, growing numbers of travelers are seeking out the tea-colored waters of the Suwannee River. And galvanized by the song, environmentalists and legislators are fighting to keep the stream unspoiled...Tags: University of Florida, Wildlife, Academic Progress, Tourism and Leisure, Water Restrictions
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Divers seek occupant of boat found in Bear Creek
Divers searching the waters of Bear Creek in Baltimore County yesterday for the missing occupant of a 16-foot aluminum motorboat, which was spotted circling in the water with no one on board shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday, will continue their search...Tags: Energy Resources, Rivers, Natural Resources, Bodies of Water
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Foresters: Cutting trees helps keep planet green
Associated Press WriterStanding by stacked 16-foot logs that hours earlier were 100-foot Norway spruce, foresters tried to explain why cutting down these old trees was an essentially green activity. Slender, bespectacled Paul Trotta framed the counterintuitive crux of the...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Agriculture, Conservation, Ecosystems, Forests
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Broward County: A listing of events
Today's highlights British Woman's Club, 7 p.m. at Gateway Terrace Community Room, 1943 NE Sixth Court, Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-942-4131. Dancing in the Moonlight, featuring Larry Roberts, 7:30-9 p.m. at Hollywood Beach Theatre, 100 Johnson St.,...Tags: Pembroke Pines, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Pompano Beach, Beach Vacations
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J. Lee Majeskie
J. Lee Majeskie, a retired professor in the department of animal and avian sciences at the University of Maryland and an internationally known dairy cattle judge, died Friday of a heart attack at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The...Tags: Energy Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison, People, Heart Disease, College Park
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Gov. Sarah Palin has put drilling above environment
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have swept into office as an independent thinker willing to challenge the establishment, but she has fallen in line with other Alaska politicians when it comes to environmental policies, according to interviews and a review...Tags: Energy Resources, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Petroleum Industry, State Budgets
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Let water be water, and keep people away
Sentinel ColumnistThe bloated St. Johns River is flooding Central Florida. So this might seem an odd time to praise the bloated bureaucracy that oversees it. But that is today's topic. Government can do something right. This tale begins a long time ago, when engineers...Tags: Kissimmee, Indian River Lagoon, Water Restrictions, Government, Everglades
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Budget cuts stall plan for better blue crab tags
A Virginia plan to better regulate fishing of endangered Chesapeake Bay blue crabs by tagging crab pots is on hold because of expected state spending cuts. Under the Virginia Marine Resources Commission plan, watermen would be required to put a new...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Timothy M. Kaine, State Budgets, Virginia Marine Resources Commission, Water Pollution
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Moore farm is sow special
The Graver farmstead on Delps Road in Moore Township was the center of the state's farmland preservation community Thursday as local and state officials gathered to mark two milestones. Northampton County has passed the 10,000-acre mark of farmland...Tags: Delps, Energy Resources, Natural Resources, Agricultural Research and Technology, Arable Farming
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State fair schedule
127th Maryland State Fair Schedule of Events
Aug. 21
8:30 a.m. Dog show obedience, upper Grandstand
9 a.m. Horse and pony show -- junior and intermediate, Horse Show Ring
9:30 a.m. Learn to earn and safety event (lawn tractor), lower Grandstand
9:...Tags: Energy Resources, Agriculture, Travis Tritt, Colleges and Universities, Natural Resources
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