Saving history from sprawl: threats to Civil War battlefields

December 4, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

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antietam, battlefields, civilwar, conservation, easements, historicpreservation, sprawl, walmart, wildernessbattlefield

  Several years ago, when we were researching and outlining Solving Sprawl, my co-author Jutka Terris advocated strongly for the inclusion of the example of using conservation easements on private land to protect Maryland's historic Antietam battlefield from sprawl development. ...continued→

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