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Conservation Group Keeps Buying Land, Helping State Parks Grow
Posted by New York Times: Lisa W. Foderaro on November 16th, 2013
New York Times: Working quietly and quickly, the Open Space Institute, a nonprofit conservation group, has bought acreage surrounding park borders, combining together smaller parcels as they come up for sale, and then selling them to the state, at cost or below. Using money from the Lila Acheson and Dewitt Wallace Endowment Fund, the group has led efforts to conserve 40,000 acres through 77 individual deals statewide; that represents more than 10 percent of the state park system's current 335,000 acres.
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Patchy aid reaches typhoon survivors as Philippines struggles rebuild
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 16th, 2013
Reuters: Survivors began rebuilding homes destroyed by one of the world's most powerful typhoons and emergency supplies flowed into ravaged Philippine islands, as the United Nations more than doubled its estimate of people made homeless to nearly two million.
But the aid effort was still patchy, and bodies still lay uncollected as rescuers tried to evacuate stricken communities on Saturday, more than a week after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 3,633 with tree-snapping winds and tsunami-like waves.
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