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Group sees 'violation of trust'
A land conservancy from Oak Glen spent years amassing $45 million in private donations and negotiating the purchase of more than a half-million unspoiled acres in the California desert so it could be turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for protection.
Now, the BLM is considering applications for wind turbines and solar-energy arrays on thousands of those acres.
March 13, 2009
by Janet Zimmerman
in The Press-Enterprise
WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY: It brokered a BLM deal to protect the desert acres that are now being opened to development.
A land conservancy from Oak Glen spent years amassing $45 million in private donations and negotiating the purchase of more than a half-million unspoiled acres in the California desert so it could be turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for protection.
Now, the BLM is considering applications for wind turbines and solar-energy arrays on thousands of those acres.
The proposals on the donated Mojave Desert parcels have riled residents, visitors and members of The Wildlands Conservancy, which orchestrated... [continue via Web link]
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