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Reuters: New York state officials chose Earth Day on Friday to announce purchase of a large tract of land in Long Island's pine barrens as a preserve for hikers and other naturalists and a source for pure drinking water.
The land, mostly surrounded by publicly owned property, had been sought for years by preservation advocates as an essential part of the 100,000-acre pine barrens in Suffolk County in eastern Long Island.
Calling the pine barrens a "beautiful natural resource" as well as "an important......
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More pine barrens, last Long Island wilderness, protected
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 22nd, 2011
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