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upstatecajun Donating Member (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-11 08:20 AM
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Ohio's nature-preserves office might go extinct
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Source: Columbus Dispatch

By Spencer Hunt

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


The state office that is supposed to protect Ohio's nature preserves will disappear July 1 if lawmakers approve the last of a series of spending cuts initiated two years ago.

The Division of Natural Areas and Preserves had as many as 30 full-time employees in 2008. The division, housed at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, oversees 28,000 acres in 135 preserves that are refuges for plants and wildlife.



Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/02/ohios-nature-preserves-office-might-go-extinct.html?sid=101



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