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Large, open ranches are often the last wide-open spaces left between growing towns and expanding highway networks. Across much of the American West and Great Plains, these properties still support ...

The current use tax policy is designed to protect open land from development, such as this field in Lyme. Credit: Photo by Amanda Gokee / New Hampshire Bulletin At Kelley Monahan’s house in Orford, ...

Nine years ago, state lawmakers set up a test. The question was whether giving slack for rules around a pillar of Oregon’s land use system — the urban growth boundary — could provide a new tool for ...

Land use advocates have ramped up the fight over turning farm-zoned land in Deschutes County into rural housing. They argue that the county is ignoring statewide planning goals meant to preserve ...