81. Control efforts are so costly that farmers often just abandon the land to the prolific plant. 82. County officials lobbied federal agencies to allow Davis to keep his cattle on the land, until the government transferred the land to the county. 83. Congressional proposals to open millions of acres of federal wilderness land to logging and mining are at the center of the budget stalemate between Congress and the White House. 84. Conservation groups have called for selling the land to the public to restore it to its original wilderness. 85. Corn futures rose after the government said it expects farmers to return only limited amounts of environmentally fragile land to crop production. 86. Earlier this century, Ecuador lost a vast stretch of land along the border to Peru, and claims the agreement conceding this land to Peru is not valid. 87. During the next decade, he conveyed land to the families of at least two of his former slaves. 88. Do we really think Palestinians want only to be ruled by a man who decrees death to those who sell land to Israelis? 89. Environmental groups, however, are concerned that the Clinton plan could open some public lands to unwise logging. 90. Environmentalists celebrated the ruling, stressing the importance of private land to species survival, according to government reports. |