Listserver: Ag & env.

["Stephen Cooke" <scooke@uidaho.edu>]

Dear Visionaries,
 FYI.
 If you replace the word Agriculture w/ the 'land development,' it suggests
an approach to the problems often discussed on this list server.
Steve

jvickery@iatp.org on 09/20/99 02:43:52 PM

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