[PCA] NEWS: Deal Is Struck in Montana to Preserve Forest Areas

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/us/01develop.html?ref=todayspaper

Deal Is Struck in Montana to Preserve Forest Areas
By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: July 1, 2008

DENVER - A huge patchwork of privately owned forest in northwest
Montana = much of it abutting wilderness, and together almost a third
the size of Rhode Island = will be permanently protected from
development under an agreement announced Monday by two private
conservation groups, the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public
Land.

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