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Recent Examples of farmlandsAt their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
Channel Islands National Park, California A throwback to old California, the five-island park preserves paleolithic digs, frontier-era ranches and relics of Spanish exploration.
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CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
8 May 2026
But unlike plenty of wealthy investors who buy ranches as status symbols or hunting playgrounds, Turner viewed his properties as restoration projects.
The baroque church, the Alpine farmsteads, and Odle peaks rising behind them are strikingly beautiful.
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Jenn Rice,
Travel + Leisure,
7 May 2026
Also part of that brief is Clara Ostrander, who had hoped a solar project would help protect two farmsteads in Milan Township that have been in her family for over 150 years.
Indonesians make up the large bulk of foreign labor in Malaysia, predominantly in plantations and construction.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
The study found that agave plantations in the two areas have expanded by over 400% the past three decades, increasingly replacing forests and farmland with a species of agave known as espadin, used in most commercial mezcal.