STEVE RINGMAN / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Paying landowners to protect Puget Sound
Farmer Andrew Albert, right, with his uncle Max Albert on the family's riverside acreage. Max Albert is skeptical of the transfer-of-development-rights system, saying it will take a "lot of political will" to make it work. His nephew agrees, saying it's too easy for developers to build on farmland rather than participate.
