Conservation Tools in the Comprehensive Plan: Easements, CRP, and Land Trusts

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Part 4 of 4 in our July series on Natural Resources and the Comprehensive Plan. Every year, somewhere in rural America, a family farm changes hands. Sometimes it stays a farm or ranch. Sometimes it becomes fifty or five hundred new houses. Most comprehensive plans never influence that decision — not because they lack good […]

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Natural Resources in Your Comprehensive Plan: What’s Coming in July

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Most comprehensive plans have a natural resources or environment chapter. Most of them say roughly the same things: protect prime farmland, preserve water quality, support conservation. But knowing what to protect is only half the job. The harder question — and the one most plans struggle with — is how. This July, we’re spending four […]

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