The U.S. Congress last week passed a bipartisan $867 billion farm bill that includes the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Land Adjustment Act, which lawmakers said will expand recreation in Northeast Georgia through “modified land exchanges.”
Conserving forests in Northeast Georgia just got a little easier, farm bill proponents say
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