The Connecticut battle between conservation and sprawl: The state won't reach its goal of preserving 673,210 acres by 2023. – Hartford Courant

The Deer Lake situation, on which the Council declined to comment, is another example of the whack-a-mole approach conservationists are often forced to take to save some of the state’s dwindling supply of open land.

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