Environmental News
11/5/2009 1:50:05 PM EST
3 million acres taken out of conservation program
TRIBUNE, Kan. – (AP) Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm environmentally sensitive land.
The arid, wind-swept ground stripped of topsoil by Dust Bowl storms has …
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