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Plans to annex 3,200 acres west of Missoula move forward – Disappearing Farmland: Small-towns Trade Farmland for Residential Development

September 21, 2018/

Urban sprawl began in the 1950s and has been a concern of city planners and the ag community since the early 1990s. But a new study from American Farmland Trust shows development around small towns across the Midwest has contributed nearly as much to the loss of ag land since 1992 as urban sprawl.

By Christopher Walljasper

Disappearing Farmland: Small-towns Trade Farmland for Residential Development

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Development pressure: Plans to annex 3,200 acres west of Missoula move forward

By Martin Kidston

https://www.missoulacurrent.com/business/2018/09/missoula-annexation/

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