Jul 01, 1998
Udalls' Legacy In an era when government is ruled by small ideas, it's fortunate that moments of clarity occur to recognize genuine leaders and real...more
May 01, 1998
How Some Other States Manage Growth Maryland approved its Smart Growth Initiative in 1997. Nine other states have comprehensive growth management laws: Hawaii (1961), Vermont...more
May 01, 1998
Governors Across the Nation Take On Sprawl In their State of the State and inaugural addresses earlier this year, fifteen governors appealed to their constituents with an...more
May 01, 1998
Making Smart Growth Happen For Michigan Six years ago a governor-appointed task force identified the "absence of land use planning that considers resources and the integrity...more
May 01, 1998
A Forest of Communication Towers Northern Michigan's ridge tops are sprouting clumps of tall steel communications towers with blinking red lights, driving many residents to...more
May 01, 1998
What Maryland's Plan Does Maryland's Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiative is a comprehensive investment and land use strategy to slow sprawl that...more
May 01, 1998
Supreme Court Rejects "Property Rights" Agenda In two separate decisions in March, Michigan's Supreme Court justices raised the sharp ax of their collective wisdom and took a deep slice...more
May 01, 1998
Settlement Reached in Cedar River Lawsuit The Friends of the Cedar River Watershed and Shanty Creek Resort have settled a path-breaking lawsuit brought by the Friends that opposed...more
Apr 28, 1998
Mute in Michigan Last June 4, 1996, high court judges in Wisconsin and Michigan issued different decisions in similar cases involving the government’s...more
Apr 01, 1998
Bottling Up Sprawl One of the most effective tools ever developed for curbing sprawl is the Urban Growth Boundary. The UGB, widely used in Europe, establishes...more
Apr 01, 1998
Energized Optimism When the National Park Service held public meetings on the fate of its historic farmsteads, cabins, and cottages in the Sleeping Bear Dunes...more
Apr 01, 1998
State Widens Investigation of Terra Energy A widening investigation by the Attorney General and the Department of Natural Resources has produced striking evidence that Antrim natural...more
Apr 01, 1998
Terra Prohibited From Leasing State Lands As a consequence of the state's audit findings, Terra Energy will not be allowed to lease minerals on public lands. The action, taken last...more
Apr 01, 1998
Energy Reform Bills in Lansing The Michigan Legislature is moving a package of 10 oil and gas reform bills closer to becoming law. Analysts predict the bills have a good...more
Apr 01, 1998
Look Beneath the Surface In 1975 the Department of Natural Resources established the Jordan Valley Management Area, a block of both state and private land in Antrim...more
Apr 01, 1998
Close to Home In the year since the first Antrim natural gas well was drilled near Cedar, in Leelanau County west of Traverse City, industry agents have...more
Apr 01, 1998
Maryland Has Model Approach To Stop Sprawl Ever since the early 1970s, when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund sponsored the first comprehensive study on how suburban sprawl damages...more
Feb 01, 1998
Tanner Takes The Stand Years before he became a renowned fisheries biologist and the director of the Department of Natural Resources during the Milliken...more
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