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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.
"Forest Legacy Feature Tract: Audubon / Piretti, Massachusetts June 1995" Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Forest Legacy Program: United States Forest Service. Retrieved January 6, 2008. Aimes, Tad (August 25, 2008). Letter to the Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs. Berkshire Natural Resources Council. Retrieved January ...
The Forest Legacy Program has two main goals. The first is to support property acquisition and the second is to acquire donated conservation easements. Participation in the FLP program is limited to private land owners and the federal government funds up to 75% of the costs that are involved.
May 5—Conservation groups have almost reached a $7.1 million fundraising goal to purchase nearly 800 acres of forest and wetlands just east of Columbia Falls, at the mouth of Bad Rock Canyon.
$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.
The ridge and certain outlying features were designated as part of a conservation planning area in 1993 by the U.S. Forest Service under its Forest Legacy Program. Called the "Stockbridge-Yokun Ridge Reserve," it consists of 6,300 acres and is among at least five in Massachusetts authorized in 1993 by the program, which enables federal ...
Part of the funding is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Legacy program. The department awarded nearly $544 million to 63 projects in 2024, according to its website.
The Estabrook Woods is a wild tract of more than 1,700 acres (6.9 km 2) of woodland, hills, ledge, and swamp straddling Concord and Carlisle Massachusetts, two miles (3 km) north of the center of Town of Concord. [1] It is the largest contiguous and undeveloped woodland within thirty miles of Boston. [2]