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Conservation Easements and the Management of the Town's Conservation Fund
The NCC has been working with Bear-Paw Regional Greenways (www.bear-paw.org), a land trust established by resident volunteers who are working to conserve open space through landowner outreach, education, land protection (i.e.: conservation easements), and community assistance. For the last three years, a portion of the Land Use Change Tax, a
penalty that landowners pay to the town when property is taken out of current use status, has supported the Conservation Fund. Three conservation easements projects have been or will be supported in part by resources from this Fund, to permanently protect over 200 acres of high quality open spaces in Nottingham.
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