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State of Working Lands: January 2010 Sent Friday, January 15, 2010 View as plaintext

The State of Working Lands


January 2010



 Wyoming Trust Allocates $4.8 Million
 
The Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resources Trust Board approved projects totaling $4.8 million.  The current round of applications included acquisition of conservation easements, treatment of beetle infested forests, and watershed restoration projects.  The legislature established the fund in 2005, and over $18 million of projects benefited from the trust.  The Trust Fund seeks matching dollars, and administrators report a performance of six external dollars for every dollar funded from the Trust Account.  Nine citizen board members administer the Trust Account.  For background on the Trust Fund, Read more>>.
  
                                                                                
 

Sustaining Utah's Agriculture
 
Representative Jack Draxler (Logan, Utah) proposes a fund that will finance conservation easements on private land.  In the past 10 years, the state of Utah lost 500,000 acres of farms and ranches.  To slow the conversion, the bill proposes an Agriculture Sustainability Investment Fund.  If passed, the legislation will reallocate funds generated from an existing tax source.  Read more>>
 
 


Housing Unit Growth:  2000-2008
 
Residential housing increased within Idaho during the eight year period 2000-2008.  The period covered the residential real estate boom and the beginning of the housing bubble;  the  total housing count increased by 110,000 units.   The Bureau of Census reports the distribution of the new homes across the state, at the county level.
 






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