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  • Land trusts have gotten the word to shape up

    The writer, a Jackson, Wyo., attorney, responds to the critics of conservation easements

  • A move to make land trusts more accountable

    The Land Trust Alliance hopes its new accreditation program for land trusts will forestall the passage of federal legislation designed to end the abuse of conservation easements

  • Is how we’re living gross?

    The writer sees his over-developed town through a friend’s eyes

  • Contaminated water can't stop California sprawl

    Perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel, has been found in drinking water wells, but that won’t stop the development of West Creek, a planned community northeast of Los Angeles

  • Property rights advocates get rebuked in Oregon

    The writer lays out the legal battle that led to Oregon’s highest court denying victory to property-rights advocates

  • In the suburbs of Los Angeles, your future awaits

    The neighborhoods of suburban L.A. can serve as a useful model for the West’s urban planners

  • Los Angeles in your future

    The writer, the bard of suburban Los Angeles, says the West can look to his city to see the future

  • Suburbia blasts through a national monument

    A rocky western escarpment and the Petroglyph National Monument have long held back Albuquerque’s sprawl, but now the Volcano Heights development is coming, and a controversial road through the monument may be built

  • So far, Oregon land-use measure is more bark than bite

    Oregon’s Measure 37 has so far proven less liberating than property-rights activists thought, and less destructive than sprawl-fighters feared

  • The best of both worlds

    George Abramajtis, like most other exurbanites, loves his life in a Colorado mountain subdivision, despite the long daily commute

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