11 October 2007: Riverside Offices of West Tamar Council, Tamar Valley, northern Tasmania. 250 Tasmanians gather 7:30PM
at a fortnightly meeting of Tasmanians Against the Pulp mill, angry with the approval by Malcolm Turnbull of the proposed Gunns Tamar pulp mill.
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A video format of a presentation I gave for the Agriculture Resource Committee of San Juan County on Farmland Preservation to the Shaw Island Community on April 30th, 2008.
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Peak Moment 1: Increasing local food production requires preserving agricultural land rather than developing it. Conservation easements on Bill and Anna Trabucco's ranch preserves agricultural land now supporting a grass-fed cattle operation.
Mount Vernon, Wash. has been dealing with the issue of whether to expand its borders into prime farmland. After a city council meeting on May 28 in Mount Vernon, Cookson Beecher of Capital Press interviewed Allen Rozema. Rozema is the director of Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland. He warned the pressure of the city to expand, and the impact on farmland, won't go away.
