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Below are links to past working lands news -- some dated links may no longer be active. Contact the publication directly for access to old articles. For current news, click here.
2009
5/15/09 - Working Lands Initiative Approved by Budget Panel Midwest AGnet
5/13/09 - Tom Lyon: Support the Working Lands Initiative Letter to the Editor, Capital Times
4/19/09 - Retain
land initiatives in budget Letter
to the Editor by Bob Retko, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
4/13/09 - Retain
and support the Working Lands Initiative Letter to the Editor by Bob Retko, Wisconsin State Farmer
4/8/09 - Another
look at saving our soil by John
Torinus, West Bend Daily News
3/29/09 - Farmland
is valuable and deserves protection Letter to the Editor by Corey Geiger, Secretary, Wisconsin Holstein
Association in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
3/23/09 - Doyle's
budget tries to preserve Wisconsin's farmlands Wisconsin State Journal
3/18/09 - Initiative would slow farmland
loss by Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, The Country Today
2/11/09 - Working-lands
proponents pin hopes on state budget By Jim Massey, The Country Today
2/11/09 - Time
has come for working-lands proposal Opinion article by The
Country Today
2008
12/16/08 - Working
Lands Workshop WisconsinEye Coverage
12/3/08 - Protecting
Wisconsin’s Working
Lands Op Ed by Richard J. Stadelman, Executive Director Wisconsin
Towns Association
2007
03/06/2007 - Farmland preservation moves ahead La
Crosse Tribune
03/05/2007 - Working
lands - Initiative calls for protection of state’s
farms, forests Dunn County News
02/07/2007 - Session
to focus on land use planning Appleton Post Crescent
02/06/2007
- Editorial:
Vanishing croplands Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
01/28/2007 - Losing
land, opportunity Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
01/09/2007 - Development issue to go before voters Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
2006
12/23/2006
- Editorial: Preserving the disappearing Wisconsin farm Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel
12/17/2006 - Editorial: Let the voters decide Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
12/13/2006
- County
could pony up to save farmland from development La Crosse
Tribune
Press Releases
7/2/09 -- AFT Salutes Bold Move to Protect Working Lands -- Amiercan Farmland Trust
6/29/09 - Budget signed with important agricultural provisions - Wispolitics.com
5/28/09 - Economic development enterprise lauds Working Land Initiative
5/15/2009 - Lawmakers applauded for taking step to protect working lands
2/18/09 - Governor lauded for focus on working
lands
1/27/09 - Glacial Lakes Conservancy to sponsor
working lands workshop
1/16/09 - American Farmland Trust and
state agriculture department announce Next Group of Working Lands
Workshops
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