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The Forest Legacy Program was established in the 1990 United States farm bill to protect environmentally important forest lands that are threatened by conversion to nonforest uses. It provides federal funding for conservation easements and fee simple purchases.
A map of the proposed conservation easements for the Pelican River Forest. ... The state secured funding from the Forest Legacy Program, run by the U.S. Forest Service, to help pay for about 75% ...
The acquisition of the conservation area's land was made possible by a donation from the Myron and Sonya Glassberg Family and the Forest Legacy Program run by the U.S. Forest Service. The land was acquired to protect the water quality of LaBarque Creek, which is one of the highest quality streams in the St. Louis area, with at least 42 species ...
Apr. 17—Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is moving ahead with plans to place 33,000 acres of private timberland between Kalispell and Libby under a conservation easement. The state agency is ...
$9.46 million U.S. Forest Service Forest Legacy Program. $6.04 million SCDNR Heritage Trust Program. $1 million S.C. Conservation Bank. $475,000 SCDNR timber revenue.
Conservation easement boundary sign. In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights ...
About 370 acres (1.5 km 2) in the Stockbridge-Yokun Ridge Reserve, or about 6 percent of the area, had been conserved using the Forest Legacy Program as of 2000. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The northern boundary of the Stockbridge-Yokun Ridge Reserve conservation zone includes Mud Pond and its surrounding wetlands, and the outlying summit of South Mountain ...
The section of Whatcom County forest is about 40 acres of land, with trees aged 80-109 years old, Timber sale is on despite conservationists’ concern for this storm-damaged legacy forest Skip to ...