This here is a perfect example...

[Lilred]

This here is why i can honestly say that this state aint always such a bad place to live..I wish I could personally thank these people.....

PRINCE EDWARD - Kyle Baldwin, president of the family corporation F.G.B. Inc., has announced the sale of approximately 2,800 acres known as Featherfin Farm to the State Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
The property will become a wildlife management area.
"We've been working on it for a year and a half trying to sell it and...we turned down two or three developers who wanted to buy it and cut it up, but we were looking for something that would keep it in one piece...." Baldwin told The Herald Thursday.
He also commented, "We hated to see it get in the hands of a developer, really. We wanted the state to have it."
The property, located about 10 miles west of Farmvllle, borders more than 10 miles along the Appomattox River in portions of Prince Edward, Buckingham and Appomattox counties.
"...I'm just so glad that we could preserve this very unique piece of land," commented Virginia Delegate Watkins Abbitt Jr. (I-59th), who introduced a budget amendment in the General Assembly that helped to finance the purchase. "And I'd like to thank the... Baldwin family who...bent over backwards to make sure that the state purchased it."

[skeeter@ccia.com]

Yea I like to see those things happen too...about time someone other than developers get some use...we had a farm I hunt on sold after farmer turned 90 and developers offered him a large $ but he wouldn't sell other than someone that would farm it..yee ha..so the other relative farmers bought it for their kids..connects to their place too..apple farm too..I have helped them pick apples and respect anyone that does so..lots of work..but everyone out there is happy...just yesterday I argued with a guy that thinks Pa should sell gamelands and let the state other than PGC run it all..That was about like talking to a non hunter and trying to get your point x to them...got nowhere..and he is even a hunter..geez...tried to tell him the PGC can't make laws...only introduce them but the state legislature has to agree and make it law..didn't believe me..oh well..he said he would rather hunt private land..I told him I would buy that land and post it..or charge a few G to hunt it..so said he go elsewere..told him I buy that land too..lease it to someone else only...we need more state land open to hunting..they don't make any more of it last time I heard.

[multibeard]

That shows the class of the owners. I am sure the developers would have given them more $$$$.

What I found from trying to hunt turkeys a couple times in Va there is little public lands once you get down out of the mountains. This will be a great addition to the state.

The amount of public lands is one of the greatest things Michigan has going for it. At least in the northern lower and the Upper Penninsula. The southern lower has some but no where the amount to the north.

There is over 50,000 acres in my county alone.

[Lilred]

They was all just hidin so you caint find em multibeard ;)
Actually...almost every county round here has em...like I said...they was just hidin on ya...:rolleyes: