Our leaders will need to find significant new financing for land protection if we wish to keep the Eastern forest green.

Legal constructions should make land protections permanent, but flexible.

Potential land protection of up to 530,000 acres with conservation easements bought from willing sellers.

"You couldn't ask for someone who has done more or cares more in terms of land protection, parks, wildlife."

Would have established a dedicated trust fund for land protection, recycling, water treatment and other environmental purposes.

We've done major land protection along the Housatonic River.

Our long history of land protection shows that loopholes that permit commercial development will always undermine attempts to protect public lands.

Mr. Feingold has more than 20 years' experience in the field of land protection and conservation.

Designated areas would hold the highest level of land protection, with public access and usage still available, but certain types of development and activities prohibited.

The wilderness designation provides a much higher level of land protection and prohibits any alterations by man to the resource.