A new report by occasional Grist contributor Jon Christensen reaches a conclusion that, to me at least, was a surprise: "Land trusts are now protecting more land than gets developed across the western United States each year."

Perhaps we have, in the words of our beloved leader, turned the corner. Heedless development is in its last throes!

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More on the report here.

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