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23 <br /> ■ nding for building capacity to protect more land and to educate <br /> Allow supplemental grant fu <br /> landowners about conservation options and tax incentives through the existing Conservation <br /> Grant Fund . <br /> ■ Allow some part of matching grant funds to be applied for operations . <br /> ■ Authorize the NC Attorney General to enter into agreements to defend and enforce <br /> conservation lands and easements held by land trusts . <br /> ■ Amend statutes to allow direct grants to qualified land trusts from the NC Natural Heritage <br /> Trust Fund and Parks and Recreation Trust Fund , as is already the case with the Clean Water <br /> Management Trust Fund and the Farmland Preservation Trust Fund . <br /> ■ Make low -interest loans available to qualifying land trusts to acquire , protect and manage <br /> open space . <br /> C . PRIVATE LAND OWNERS <br /> Objective 2C . 1 : Encourage private property owners to protect open space . <br /> ■ Provide incentives to secure state funding for easements and other protection measures . <br /> ■ Improve publicity for , and dissemination of, information for landowners on open space <br /> protection strategies . <br /> Objective 2C . 2 : Include private property owners in planning . <br /> ■ Farmland and open space plans should be crafted through a public process that specifically <br /> includes participation by affected property owners . <br /> D . BUSINESS COMMUNITY - <br /> Objective 2D . 1 : Encourage private - public partnerships . <br /> ■ Develop an Adopt - A - Greenspace program , similar to the existing Adopt - A -Highway <br /> program . <br /> ■ Encourage the banking industry to provide revolving/low - interest loan funds to qualified land <br /> conservation organizations to acquire and protect important open space lands . <br /> E . FEDERAL GOVERNMENT <br /> Objective 2E . 1 : Coordinate protection efforts with existing federal facilities . <br /> ■ Encourage the federal government to develop plans to protect significant natural areas on its <br /> properties within North Carolina . <br /> 8 <br />