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Last month, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation biologists measured and marked an Eastern indigo snake on an island in the Pine Island Sound as part of the

State officials told San Juan County Commissioners that the 30×30 conservation plan does not give state entities the authority to seize private lands.

Amid criticisms that an initiative to conserve 30 percent of the lands and watersheds in New Mexico by 2030 is a land grab, officials from the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department told San Juan County lawmakers that eminent domain will not be used. Eminent domain is a tool that allows government entities to take […]

Thrice cursed Charles Island now a sanctuary Kendra Wingate FacebookTwitterEmail Charles Island, a 14-acre island located approximately 0.5 miles off the coast of Milford, boasts a long and storied past. The unassuming island is steeped in decades of history, is said to be “thrice cursed,” and is a now cherished state resource for native wildlife. The first curse was said to have been laid upon the land by a Paugusset chief in 1639 when he lost the land, which he believed to be home to the ...