Rocky Mountain conservation deal tops $500 million

July 1, 2008 By MATT GOURAS , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.



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