Sentences with phrase «conservation easement program»
COPAKE (COLUMBIA COUNTY)-- Scenic Hudson and the Columbia Land Conservancy (CLC), with support from the USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Agricultural Land Easement (ALE) component, Equity Trust and The 1772 Foundation, recently collaborated with the Kiernan and Sullivan families to protect 350 acres of high - quality farmland — the heart of their farm operations, known as Walt's Dairy.
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The grants are funded through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program, and the projects will support the preservation of farmland for agricultural use and protect it from degradation through the use of perpetual conservation easements.
The bill also includes a slight bump for conservation easements and open space protection projects; ongoing funds for the Lake Champlain Basin Program and reauthorization for a federal law that provides clean - up funds for contaminated industrial properties — including a site in Plattsburgh.
Scenic Hudson purchased the conservation easement with funds from its Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace Hudson Valley Land Preservation Endowment as well as monies from the USDA's ALE Program and The 1772 Foundation.
Additionally, Equity Trust's Hudson Valley Farmland Affordability Program funded a Pre-emptive Purchase Right (PPR) as part of the conservation easement.
Selling conservation easements does not, however, mean that the land must be farmed, and that can be a problem for programs intent on keeping farmland productive.
The federal program has provided funding to help purchase more than 4,200 conservation easements, protecting more than 1.1 million acres.
Hundreds of land trusts all over the country participate in farmland preservation programs, but most are small and many rely on donated land, not purchases of conservation easements.