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Land Resources / News / Colorado
Colorado open space agency scoops up more land for preservation
Source: DenverPost.com, by Bruce Finley
December 09, 2010 
Great Outdoors Colorado on Wednesday advanced its effort to preserve open space, deploying $13.8 million of lottery proceeds to buy 13,595 acres statewide that otherwise could be developed. Colorado still loses private agricultural land at the rate of about 30,000 acres per year, or 82 acres per day, according to the latest federal data. "It typically is turning into 35-acre subdivisions," said Lise Aangeenbrug, director of GOCO, the state agency formed in 1992 to use lottery money to protect, enhance and manage Colorado's wildlife, park, river, trail and open spaces.
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