{"id":3599,"date":"2011-01-19T05:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:19:07","slug":"morning-read-2-strange-bedfellows-lobby-for-environmental-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/19\/morning-read-2-strange-bedfellows-lobby-for-environmental-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read 2:  &#8220;Strange bedfellows&#8221; lobby for environmental funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/53847\/environmental-shortfall-strange-bedfellows\/\">The Albany Times-Union<\/a> is reporting that loggers, farmers and environmental activists teamed up in Albany this week to ask for full funding for the state&#8217;s Environmental Protection Fund.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the cash pool that&#8217;s typically used to make big land and easement purchases in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Loggers are not always on the same side of a given issue as  environmentalists. Nor are farmers. But those and other groups joined  together Tuesday with a common goal in mind: convincing Gov. Andrew  Cuomo to invest in environmental pursuits in his upcoming budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, budget cuts have crimped the amount of logging private companies can do on state land outside the blue line.<\/p>\n<p>It has also limited the payments to farmers for keeping their land in agriculture.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/53847\/environmental-shortfall-strange-bedfellows\/\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting that loggers, farmers and environmental activists teamed up in Albany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}