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500 sq. miles of pristine Montana Rockies acquired by Conservancy

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Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

More than 300,000 acres of critical habitat for threatened and endangered animals, including grizzly bears and lynx, will be transferred to public ownership in a $500 million deal with Plum Creek Timber. A ceremony was held Monday in Montana to sign the agreement.

The deal, equivalent to 500 square miles, spans a region known as the Crown of the Continent, a place environmentalists say is one of the most intact ecosystems remaining in the country.
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7 responses // 500 sq. miles of pristine Montana Rockies acquired by Conservancy

  • A good thing if this is being protected from mining interests....

    But if BLM is involved, that is not such a good thing.

    Living here in the west our "public lands" come with so many restrictions they really are not "the publics" land....
    1percent
  • That would be a nice place to live! Its Good that we are protecting our ecosystem little by little.
    currentkid
  • Wish this could have been a gift. Our government needs to use the eminent domaine argument for something other than development. It certainly benefits us all( locally, nationally, and globally ).
    macdontcare
  • GOOD!
    Leonidis
  • This poster is gravely mistaken when they assume that this "land in the northern Rocky Mountains" is being purchased to "protect" the land "from development."

    Please read the United Nations Agenda 21 to gain an understanding of the agenda behind these rural land grabs:
    http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/englis...

    This is part of an agenda to limit not only the size of the world population but also housing, production, consumption, parenting, communication, and religious expression. We're being herded out of rural areas and into extremely dense "habitat areas" (formerly called cities).

    Check out The UN Conference on Human Settlements...and don't always believe what you read, watch or hear. Not everyones motives are benevolent and in your best interest.

    I love and respect the environment as much as everyone else, but I've done the research to know when the rug is being pulled over my eyes or not. Get educated, and stop letting really bad people use you as pawns or drones in order to ram through extremely scary agendas.
    onepersonsopinion
  • ultimately , if you really want to preserve land , you need more Ted Turners - you need more billionaires just buying up thousands of square miles at a time . sure , you wouldn't be able to visit the place , but if you're truly about conservation wouldn't it be selfish to insist that you have to be able to visit the place if it's going to be conserved ? enlightened billionaire private landowners - that's what we need more of .
    malathion
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