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Ear to the Ground No. 242: A Geography of Hope

Conservation pioneer Paul Johnson talks about forging a social compact between farmers and society…and the day he made a farmer cry.

To download a pdf copy of America’s Private Land, A Geography of Hope, click here. The NRCS page for the publication is here.

You can find LSP Ear to the Ground podcast episodes on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, and other podcast platforms.

https://landstewardshipproject.org/repository/1/3282/ear_to_the_ground_no_242.mp3

Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 20:17 | Recorded on July 28, 2020

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