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Would You Pay To Protect Open Space?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Matthew Shaffer
10 November 2004 - 7:00am

An emerging national trend indicates that citizens are increasingly willing to pay to protect open space.

"Long Island, it turns out, is part of a rapidly emerging national trend: Citizens evincing an increasing willingness to dig into their own pockets to protect open space. According to The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization, 108 of 148 local and state measures aimed at putting up public money to preserve open space were successful this election. In all, more than $2.5 billion in new money was approved to protect land.

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Source: Newsday, November 7, 2004
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