Mass. Conservation To Be Driven By Science, Not Vistas

Massachusetts will focus conservation efforts on areas of scientific importance rather than aesthetic value.

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August 10, 2001, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[Massachusetts] state officials plan to announce today that science - not scenic vistas - will become the backbone of the state's land conservation efforts, a move that will probably see more dollars going to large, remote locations brimming with rare plants and animals rather than to relatively tiny tracts of urban or suburban land that have more aesthetic value."

Thanks to Bruce Hughes

FULL STORY: Science to drive conservation of Mass. land

Friday, August 10, 2001 in The Boston Globe

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