Sentences with phrase «agricultural conservation easements»
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.
If DE starts receiving anything like your winter tour of the former agricultural property in your neighborhood protected under the conservation easement, Yahoo!, I'll be tuned in all the time.
At the same time, Scenic Hudson announced that farm will be protected by a conservation easement, which permanently limits development on the property except for expanded agricultural use.
Scenic Hudson also was one of the first land trusts in New York State to acquire conservation easements, compensating farmers for keeping their land open and available for agricultural use.
Identified carbon sequestration pathways include: terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic habitat; agricultural lands and soils; aquatic marine and freshwater natural resources; and working forest conservation easements or deed restrictions.
By acquiring a conservation easement on this land, Scenic Hudson and CLC have ensured its permanent availability for agricultural use and that it will always remain affordable for farmers.
In a partnership effort, this Ulster County farm will also be protected by a conservation easement, which permanently limits development on the property except for expanded agricultural use.
[The conservation, development and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water and other natural resources of the commonwealth are public uses, and the general court shall have power to provide for the taking, upon payment of just compensation therefor, of lands and easements or interests therein, including water and mineral rights, for the purpose of securing and promoting the proper conservation, development, utilization and control thereof and to enact legislation necessary or expedient therefor.]
«But if states had committed the same level of funding they had in 2008, we would have saved an additional 358,000 acres of agricultural land and purchased 2,000 additional farmland conservation easements,» he said.