51.   Conservation easements are used to protect habitat on private land and landowners are encouraged to restore habitat in urban and rural areas.

52.   Cuny, who has a permit to import mammals and release them on private land in Texas, stepped in to help.

53.   Crown Butte purchased the mining rights on the private land after deciding that technological advances and new discoveries would make mining profitable.

54.   Conservation easements are used to protect habitat on private land, and landowners are encouraged to restore habitat in urban and rural areas.

55.   Easements running along the beach have been challenged, since it is sometimes not clear where public land ends and private land begins.

56.   Either could strip the law of its authority over private land.

57.   Environmentalists celebrated the ruling, stressing the importance of private land to species survival, according to government reports.

58.   Enron also asked the Bush administration to agree to seize private land for construction of more transmission towers.

59.   Environmental groups counter that the Constitution already requires compensation for taking private land.

60.   Federal legislation now requires that publicly financed work on private lands or work that disturbs public lands be assessed for its archaeological impact.