This means that someone who built a new home on a vacant lot would pay taxes only on the value of the land, saving thousands per year in the process.
Dr. Dan explained: "We wanted to utilize the highest part of the land, saving most of the space for landscaping and possible future use.
Anyone who wants the land saved as a monument to Ms. Day, he said, will have to buy it.
Ms. Colby wanted to see the land saved as a literary tribute to her grandmother, of course, but there were other compelling reasons.
Agus Purnomo, an adviser to Mr. Yudhoyono in at the conference, said the amount of forest land saved under the deal "still needs to be calculated".
Much of the land saved is in remote areas and protects aquifers, or as Mr. Foelsch said, "lands that are not conducive to active recreation -- steep slopes, wetlands".
WHERE Soft Greens fret about the risks from factory farms and pesticides and genetically engineered plants, Dr. Huber exults in the land saved by new technologies.
Agus Purnomo, an adviser to Mr. Yudhoyono in the Oslo delegation, said the amount of forest land saved under the deal "still needs to be calculated".Licenses already granted to clear peat land or virgin forest would be honored, Mr. Purnomo said.
While it was hypothesized that the higher yields from agricultural intensification would allow less land to be used for agriculture and more land "saved" for biodiversity, evidence is also accumulating that higher yields rarely create this "land-sparing" effect, and in fact may stimulate expansion of agricultural frontiers, including what has come to be known as the global "land grab".
But McGovern successfully landed, saving his crew, a feat for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Policies securing economic development and a land-saving spatial structure are increasingly required to work towards integrated measures promoting semi-compact metropolitan poles and containing deregulated urban expansion.
