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1 Lands Legacy Annual Action Plan 2001 -02 Because another six months remain in the first year of the Lands Legacy program, a complete report on the 2000 -2001 fiscal year will not be available until December 2001. The following are a few items worth mentioning from the first half year of the current Annual Action Plan. Received grants of $1.14 million toward land acquisitions — as follows: • $377,000 from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund and $250,000 from the NC Parks and Recreation Trust Fund for land acquisition for the Little River Regional Park and Natural Area. Also received a grant of $262,000 from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund for development of the park • Purchased the Orange County portion (136 acres) of the proposed 391 -acre Little River Regional Park and Natural Area (November 7, 2000) to be owned and managed jointly with Durham County. [Durham County purchased 170 acres; another 85 acres to be purchased by July 2001] • Closed on the McGowan Creek Preserve, a former Duke Forest landholding purchased from Duke University, using $143,000 in grant funds from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund • Received grant of $107,000 from Farmland Preservation Trust Fund Adopted 4111101 for farmland conservation easement on Victor Walters farm in Cedar Grove Township • Received grant of $5,000 from the NC Natural Heritage Program for an update of Orange County's Inventory of Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitat. Note: All Inventory sites are now incorporated in the N.C. Natural Heritage Program • Established the Orange County Land Conservation Alliance, bringing together staff from partner entities in land conservation to share information for potential collaboration on resource protection projects