Details for the Southern Region Listening Session of the Presidents America’s Great Outdoors Initiative

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White House holding a public listening session on recreation and conservation
A listening session will be held as part of the America’s Great Outdoors...
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America's Great Outdoors Suggested Talking Points

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Working Lands and/or Equine Friendly Land Conservancies in the U.S.
A working list of land trusts that deal with working lands and/or are equine friendly.
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A Primer on Conservation Easements - October 2009 article
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Conserving Land in Horse-friendly Aiken, SC
Read about how the equine-friendly Aiken Land Conservancy is doing its part to save horse land in Aiken County, South Carolina.
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Protecting Horse Country: Conservation Trust of Florida brochure
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Equine Coalition Asks Congressional Horse Caucus to Support of Enhanced Federal Tax Incentives for Easements
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Horse Farm Conservation Fact Sheet; Ask Congress to Make the Tax Incentives Permanent
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Tax Incentives for Farmland Conservation (Expires 12/31/2009)
Congress recently extended, through 2009, a Federal tax incentive for conservation easement donations that has helped thousands of landowners conserve their land.
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Establishment of USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets
Farms, ranches and forests provide food, fiber and fuel as well as important ecosystem services to the American people. But all too often,
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow! Is Your Competition Venue Protected From Development?
The excitement builds as you travel to the competition or show.
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Carolina Horse Park
The story of how this new competition facility came to be.
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This Land is Home to Us
Why one family placed a conservation easement on their land.
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Preserving Callithea Farm
The preservation of Callithea Farm came from a handful of equestrian activists along with a concerned Callithea Farm heir. Here's how they made it happen.
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Warfield Equestrian Park
Conservation easements - are they always a key strategy for preserving open space for equestrian use? The public debate in Billings, Montana proves they are not.
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Purchase of Development Rights: Conserving Lands, Preserving Western Livelihoods
Free booklet available.
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Ripples
A story of successful networking between a land trust and a steeplechase course development.
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Caledonia Conservancy
Development of an equestrian friendly land trust that involves the entire community.
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