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The program is funded by taxes and was approved by voters in a referendum in March 1999. [1] The initial referendum allowed the county to collect 0.25 mil (25 cents for every $1,000 of taxable value) in ad valorem tax through 2019 which was used for the acquisition, protection, and management of environmentally sensitive lands.
The Open Space Institute, a national organization, says that since 1974 it has partnered to protect more than 2.5 million acres of at-risk and environmentally sensitive land across the eastern ...
The goal of the ECARP was to provide long-term protection of environmentally sensitive land. Contracts, easements, and cost-share payments were used to assist landowners and operators of farms and ranches to conserve and enhance soil, water, and related natural resources, including grazing land, wetland, and wildlife habitat
For example, the world's largest and longest running PES program is the United States' Conservation Reserve Program, [3] which pays about $1.8 billion a year under 766,000 contracts with farmers and landowners to "rent" a total 34,700,000 acres (140,000 km 2) of what it considers "environmentally-sensitive land."
What was planned to be a 16-pump gas station on environmentally sensitive land is now on the way to becoming preserved greenspace the size of Tallahassee’s Tom Brown Park. Thank the Florida ...
Through this program, environmentally sensitive areas were preserved and/or restored. Again in 1990 and 2008, voters opted to increase taxes in order to expand ELAPP. On November 6, 2008 Florida voted for an amendment to the Florida Constitution requiring the state legislature to exempt land permanently set aside for conservation from all ...
Environmentally Sensitive Lands (ESL) is a land conservation program in Hernando County, Florida funded by a bond measure approved by voters November 8, 1988. The program is set up to run for 30 years and seeks "To build an East-West corridor across the county linking large conservation tracts of the Withlacoochee State Forest" and "develop a North-South Coastal Corridor that will continue ...
The Clean Ohio Fund is Ohio's main funding source for open space conservation, farmland preservation, trail creation, brownfield restoration, and protection of ecologically sensitive areas. The fund was approved by voters in 2000 as a $400 million bond initiative and renewed for another eight years in 2008.