Preserving Urban Greenspaces

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Henry Sessions of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on one of the most ambitious urban greenspace preservation programs in the country. The combined public-private effort aims to set aside as much land as possible in and around Portland, Oregon, the last big metropolitan area on the West Coast with a large amount of undeveloped land.

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