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The conservation easement's purposes will vary depending on the character of the particular property, the goals of the land trust or government unit, and the needs of the landowners. For example, an easement's purposes (often called "conservation objectives") might include any one or more of the following: Maintain and improve water quality;
On an easement refuge, the Refuge boundaries encompass private land and the Fish and Wildlife Service does not own the land. Instead, through the use of a conservation easement , the FWS maintains the water rights and the right to restrict "hunting , trapping and willful disturbance of any bird or wild animal of any kind whatsoever within the ...
Federal protected areas include lands and waters owned outright ("Fee ownerships"), as well as areas that are secured by easements, leases, etc. In addition to ownership-defined areas, there are numerous overlaying policy designations that apply management protections and use conditions on all or some of individual protected areas (e.g ...
The easement contains pipes that supply water to 360,000 residents. The problem is that those pipes are now nearly 100 years old, so a rupture could happen at any time, resulting in untold damages.
Elsing Green in Virginia, which was granted an easement to preserve the land. Farmland preservation is a joint effort by non-governmental organizations and local governments to set aside and protect examples of a region's farmland for the use, education, and enjoyment of future generations. They are operated mostly at state and local levels by ...
Under the conservation easement, GreenWood Resources — a timber investment company that manages lands previously owned by Weyerhaeuser and other timber companies — will continue to own the ...
Buncombe County Commissioners unanimously approved a budget amendment June 4 for $310,000 from its special projects fund to help cover transaction costs for the Warren Wilson conservation easement.
Map of the Boulder City Conservation Easement (in green on the map) and other protected areas. The Boulder City Conservation Easement (BCCE) is a conservation easement located in Boulder City in Clark County in southwestern Nevada. It was designated in 1995 with an area of 86,538 acres to protect the Desert tortoise and other desert species. In ...