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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought this was a pretty intriguing way to conserve rural land. Clallam County, on Washington&#8217;s Olympic Peninsula, is considering a real estate sales tax of 0.5 percent per sale to finance farmland preservation, which is something of a vanishing resource in the booming county. The tax would go to purchase development easements on farmland, which gives farmers an injection of cash and also guarantees that the land will stay...]]></description>
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