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...Today, there are more than 2.4mn acres of corner-locked public land in Wyoming, according to the digital mapping company onX, and 8.3mn acres of it in the West — in all some 13,000 sq miles....
...MN8 Energy, which was spun out of Goldman Sachs in 2018, owns a 390-megawatt site in Kings County and a 2,100-acre plot in Lemoore, California — both of which have been maintained by Indart’s Solar Sheep...
...Loop Head, County Clare, €9.75mn Where On the Loop Head peninsula in the south of County Clare, near the fishing village of Kilbaha....
...and Nansledan, the Duchy of Cornwall’s less well-known follow-up, a 540-acre extension to Newquay, which Boys Smith deems far “better” than the original....
...Ohio is keeping 25 or more properties across the state ready for large industrial projects, while Indiana advertises having half a dozen “shovel-ready” sites and Michigan has touted three sites with power...
...It showcases a group of international artists who all, for one reason or another, chose to live in Marin County between the ’40s and the ’70s....
...Who do you think is likely to be more correct, Exxon or BP? Let me know: justin.jacobs@ft.com....
...He uses 20 acres of his 240-acre holding to grow 20,000 or so yuccas, almost entirely the rostrata variety — its leaves, he says, are softer and less knifelike, making them better suited to domestic gardens...
...The Bentley has yielded more than $500mn in sales — or about 40 per cent of the inventory — in less than a year and before a single shovel has scraped the earth....
...So far in 2022, more than 180,000 acres have burnt in more than 5,000 fires, according to statistics published by Cal Fire, the state’s fire fighting agency....
...Pennard Plants is Smith’s 2-acre Victorian walled garden in Somerset....
...“It falls between the three or four-bedroom more modern house for £700,000-£800,000 that is not big enough for some, and the four to five-bedroom period house on an acre or two for £1.5mn-£2mn,” Rix says...
...In another, the World Wide Fund for Nature joined it in a $6mn initiative two years ago to restore 1mn acres of grazing land in the Great Plains....
...In 2020, US farm output was $134.7bn, accounting for 2.6mn jobs, or 1.4 per cent of US employment....
...CAR data show that between 2018 and 2020, carmakers invested more than $8bn in Michigan in EVs and autonomous vehicles, while Ohio received $2.5bn and Indiana $304m....
...In the mid-century, two civic-minded families of Hampstead Unitarians, the Fields and the Sharpes, promoted the heath in more practical ways. They were less Nimby-ish than the copyholders....
...It boasts three acres of private beach and two clay tennis courts....
...Idlewild sits on a 2,700-acre site in the midst of a forest of hardwoods and towering red pines in rural western Michigan. It contains two of the few spring-fed lakes in the county....
...(A Broad and Ample Road) ICYMI Land-grab universities This investigative story traced 11m acres of land in the US that were taken from tribal nations and sold to build up endowments at 52 American colleges...
...About 60 per cent of counties in the state progressively imposed restrictions or moratoriums on wind development....
...and producing more, but with less variety in their output....
...Nestled in 2.7 acres, the modernist house – originally a second-world-war observation tower – is contemporary in style, and just a 20-minute drive from the centre of Halifax....
...Having moved to Cumbria nine years ago, he knows these lands like the back of his hand, often favouring less trodden paths to avoid tourist crowds....
...For some, historic fires in northern California burning 1.2m acres of land have put a stop to the would-be exodus....
...In 2019, 2,628 homes were sold for more than €400,000 outside the capital, 9 per cent more than in 2018, according to Knight Frank....
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