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Grants to help protect N.C. land Page 1 of 2 <br />21 <br />try' u <br />..c ;r.:1 a.:. , c` {.. ,: i �.•• ]r Site Updated: 12:02 PM I MONDAY, J <br />Go To Section SEARCH ARCHIVES: Full Text Arc <br />k - Letters to thi <br />Subscribe tc <br />f- Triangle r- NC r Nation/World (,Columnists r- Editorials Place a Disp <br />Place a Cla: <br />TODAY: news: News Shortcuts <br />Contact The <br />Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:37 a.m. EST About The N <br />Top news, <br />Grants to help protect N.C. land <br />.: weather and <br />movie times in <br />your palm. <br />By RICHARD STRADLING, Staff Writer STORY TOOLS <br />News, movie <br />— <br />.- times and <br />printer friendly version <br />}j more in your <br />The state Agriculture Department will send this story o a friend <br />ry(� <br />mailbox. <br />announce today that more than $150,000 <br />from this year's Farmland Preservation Trust SITE TOOLS <br />CURRENT: <br />Fund will help protect 1,220 acres of land <br />Overcast 48 °F <br />across the state -- none of it in the Triangle -- subscribe to our e-mail lists <br />TODAY: High 58 °F; Low <br />from development. get news, weather, movies on <br />10 <br />38 °F. Breezy later. <br />your PDA <br />TOMORROW: High 58 °F; <br />The state will divide the money among eight <br />Low 30 °F. Sunshine and <br />farms in seven counties. The grants, none <br />IT <br />mild. <br />larger than $24 000 will be used to pay for surveying and for other costs of <br />Bridges to the mainstream <br />Dole buys mother's <br />Salisbury home <br />Signs better for NCSU <br />Peterson's defense to put <br />police on trial <br />Democrats get ready for <br />District 13 contest <br />Life interrupted <br />Council: Mobile homes in <br />city? <br />Plea for sympathy has <br />begun <br />Grants to help protect <br />N.C. land <br />Mason Inlet on the move <br />Charlotte's execs on <br />rescue mission <br />Salvation Army members <br />say 'Hallelujah' to <br />longtime worker <br />Flood fixes begin at police <br />facility <br />1 1 <br />placing conservation easements on the farms. The easements allow the <br />farmers to keep their property and continue farming but transfer the rights to <br />develop the land to a local conservation group. <br />The state received nine applications for this year's fund, but none from the <br />Triangle. <br />Last year, local governments and private land trusts received nearly $800,000 <br />from the fund to acquire conservation easements on about 418 acres in <br />Durham, Orange, Harnett, Chatham and Alamance counties. Durham County <br />received $250,000 to cover a fraction of the value of a conservation easement <br />on nearly 55 acres of the 130 -acre Herndon family farm, which sits within a half - <br />mile of The Streets at Southpoint mall. The Herndon family donated the rest of <br />the easement's value. <br />This year, the conservation easements are in Watauga, Gaston, Hyde, Pamlico, <br />Transylvania, Union and Randolph counties. <br />Shopping: <br />',p <br />Current F <br />Weddings <br /># e -mail an <br />Travel <br />• Travel Br <br />• Travel Di; <br />This year's fund was the smallest since the fund was established four years ago. <br />The fund peaked last year at $1.4 million; it must be, replenished by the General Personals <br />Assembly every year. people2p <br />Staff writer Richard Stradling can be reached at 829 -4739 or <br />rstradli @newsobserver.com <br />Feedback 11 Parental Consent 11 Privacy Policy II User Agreement <br />C Tn Spntinn 1 <br />. ;,. <br />Jobs: <br />* Post your <br />* Search 11 <br />Jobs at T <br />http : / /www.newsobserver.com/monday/ news /Story /903591p- 902714c.htrnl 01/14/2002 <br />