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The Williamson Act of the US state of California (officially, the California Land Conservation Act of 1965) is a California law which provides relief of property tax to owners of farmland and open-space land in exchange for a ten-year agreement that the land will not be developed or otherwise converted to another use. The motivation for the ...
The Georgia Land Conservation Program (GLCP) works to permanently protect land and water resources in the U.S. state of Georgia through public/private partnerships. [1] Created in 2005 by former Governor Sonny Perdue through the Georgia Land Conservation Act, [ 2 ] the GLCP provides grants, low-interest loans, and tax credits to achieve ...
The Soil Bank Program is a federal program (authorized by the Soil Bank Act, P.L. 84-540, Title I) of the late 1950s and early 1960s that paid farmers to retire land from production for 10 years. It was the predecessor to today’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Proposed by President Eisenhower as part of the 1956 Agriculture Act, the ...
Participants in the CSP sign a Conservation Security Contract stating which of the three levels (also referred to as tiers) of conservation they will maintain on lands in production in return for annual payments. [4] Level I is a 5-year contract of up to $20,000 annually to address at least one conservation problem on a portion of a farm.
Sep. 23—A new agreement between Clatsop County's largest landowner and the Columbia Land Trust will conserve a productive acreage between Astoria and Seaside for forestry work and ensure access ...
The conservation agreement was formalized in November 2022 and will remain in effect for 50 years. Under the terms of the agreement, landowners agree to allow the species to be placed on their ...
Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels; Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area (ACCOBAMS), Monaco, 1996; Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS), New York, 1992
Ormond Beach city commissioners on Wednesday found the developers of the Hunter's Ridge subdivision, which straddles the Volusia-Flagler county border, in violation of a 32-year-old agreement and ...