Senate Passes A Sweeping Land Conservation Bill

CORAL DAVENPORT, NY Times: Science
Tue, 02/12/2019 - 4:59pm

Years in the works, the measure designates more than a million acres of wilderness for environmental protection and permanently reauthorizes a federal program to pay for conservation.

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