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21 <br />)!/~IIBIT C <br />The Property is located adjacent to New Hope Creek in Orange County. The Property <br />contains 18.67 acres, 14.67 acres of which is considered under this Conservation Easement. <br />The Property contains no shuctures. <br />One of the purposes for protecting this Property is to provide a 300-foot water quality buffer <br />on New Hope Creek and to provide pedestrian access reserved for the placement of future <br />trails as part of the future New Hope Creek Trail. A proposed trail system will haverse the <br />property and will run along New Hope Creek. This buffer is intended to remain in natural <br />condition. <br />This easement is intended to preserve, enhance, restore, and manrtanr the natural features and <br />resources of the Property, to provide habitat for native plants and anneals, to improve and <br />maintain water quality, and to conh~ol runoff of sediment. <br />The Easement Area is a significant natural area that qualifies in its present condition as a <br />"...relatively natural habitat of fish, wildlife, or plants, or similar ecosystem," as that phrase is <br />used in P.L. 96-541, 26 UCS 170(lr)(A)(ii), as amended, and in regulations promulgated <br />thereunder. Specifically, the Easement Area is habitat for a variety of native plants and <br />animals described for this area on Pages 176-180 of the Inventory of the Natural Areas mrd <br />Wildlife Habitats of Orange County, North Carolina, written by Dawson Sather and Stephen <br />Hall urd conducted for the Triurgle Lurd Conservancy in coordination with the Nor4h <br />Carolina Nahual Heritage Program in December 1988. The native plants and animals known <br />to exist in this river corridor include white oak, red oak, beech, mountain holly, red-shouldered <br />hawk, green-backed heron, green snake, pickerel flog and the dwarf waterdog. <br />The Easement Area provides land area for outdoor recreation by, or the education of, the <br />students and members of the faculty of Trinity School and the general public, specifically the <br />trail corridor along New Hope Creek, which is expected to receive heavy recreational use by <br />the citizens ofboth Orange and Durhanr counties. <br />The Easement Area includes land within the New Hope Creek riparian corridor, which has <br />been recognized by Orange County as having significance as a wildlife corridor and is <br />identified on Pages 2.2-41 of the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive <br />Plan as the Korstian Divisiov/Duke Forest section of the New Hope Creek Refuge System. It <br />is a primary purpose of this Easement to protect the undeveloped nature of the Grantors' <br />Property and, in doing so, helping to protect the natural area and wildlife habitat associated <br />with this area. <br />21 <br />