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June 11, 2005 Takaaki Iwabu
Kelly Calabria, left, and Katie Tedrow of Land for Tomorrow deliver jars of soil to state legislators. It took three and a half hours to deliver 170 jars. Here's an idea supporters hope will take root: The group Land for Tomorrow is urging lawmakers to support its five-year plan to preserve state land. As a reminder, 170 lawmakers received jars filled with North Carolina soil. A coalition of 57 organizations, including environmental and historic preservation groups, asked the General Assembly to establish a referendum in November 2006 on a bond to generate $200 million a year for land conservation.

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