Tuesday, May 28, 2013

South Carolina city eyes conservation...and economic development?

Calhoun Falls was selected as one of four communities to undergo a comprehensive study led by the Conservation Fund. The Conservation Fund's Livability Initiative is designed to help gateway communities - communities near public sites such as parks, forests, and in the case of Calhoun Falls, Lake Russell - better utilize natural resources. Livability Initiative partners with the Federal Highway Administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and The Conservation Fund's Conservation Leadership Network to locate areas of economic development while still preserving the natural resources around those communities...more

I do believe that's the first time I've seen FWS, NPS, FS and BLM used in the same sentence with "economic development".

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