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14 <br /> 1 • Beef cattle <br /> 2 • Pasture <br /> 3 • Streams <br /> 4 <br /> 5 Conservation Easement: <br /> 6 ➢ Perpetual easement <br /> 7 ➢ Rights of privacy <br /> 8 ➢ Right to farm <br /> 9 ➢ Agricultural buildings/structures <br /> 10 ➢ 2 future home sites <br /> 11 ➢ 1 future subdivision <br /> 12 <br /> 13 Funding partners: <br /> 14 ➢ Orange County <br /> 15 ➢ Eno River Association (Healthy Forest Grant) <br /> 16 ➢ Upper Neuse Clean Water Initiative <br /> 17 ➢ State of NC (CREP) <br /> 18 ➢ Town of Hillsborough <br /> 19 ➢ Landowner donation <br /> 20 • CREP Project <br /> 21 • Fencing (8,000 ft.) <br /> 22 • Buffer restoration <br /> 23 • New water sources <br /> 24 • Riparian buffer easement (State) <br /> 25 Brooks Farm <br /> 26 Conservation partnership: <br /> 27 <br /> 28 Dennis and Linda Brooks <br /> 29 Orange County <br /> 30 Eno River Association <br /> 31 Orange Soil &Water Conservation <br /> 32 Healthy Forests Initiative <br /> 33 Upper Neuse Clean Water Initiative (Raleigh) <br /> 34 Town of Hillsborough <br /> 35 NC Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program <br /> 36 USDA Farm Services Agency <br /> 37 <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Commissioner Jacobs said that this is this first time Hillsborough has partnered <br /> 40 financially with Orange County on a conservation easement. <br /> 41 Commissioner Gordon thanked the Brooks family for their generous donation and also <br /> 42 thanked staff who had been working on this project. <br /> 43 Commissioner Gordon pointed out her comments and questions on the blue sheet, <br /> 44 shown below: <br /> 45 <br /> 46 <br />