Federal government releases millions of acres from conservation ...

Courtesy Outdoor Recreation News  Wed, 11/04/2009 - 08:11

Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm environmentally sensitive land.


 

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