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A Property Rights Parable for City Dwellers
Representative Pombo of California is chairman of the task force charged with reforming the Endangered Species Act. Mr. Farah is former editor of the Sacramento Union and executive director of the Western Journalism Center. This article is adapted from This Land is Our Land, published September 1996 by St. Martin’s Press. Imagine you have just [...]
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