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Article: Conservation mission Izaak Walton League strives to protect land, environmental treasures.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- April 24, 2002
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Byline: Uma Shyamala Dixit Daily Herald Correspondent
A combination of family planning and health counseling, along with community-based approaches to resource conservation, can pull economies out of the downward spiral of poverty and environmental degradation.
This summarizes in a nutshell the conclusions of a week-long study tour to Guatemala undertaken by 12 members of the Izaak Walton League of America in February.
The team included Sue Anderson, treasurer of the League's Elgin chapter.
For the Maryland-based League, one of the oldest resource conservation organizations in the United States with 400 chapters, the trip marked its ...