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37 <br /> Model Conservation Easement Revised <br /> activities, including farming, ranching, historic, cultural, harvest-your-own activities, or natural <br /> activities and attractions, or"Special Events" as defined herein, that have minimal negative <br /> impacts upon the environment and the Conservation Values of the Protected Property and are <br /> limited to "de minimis" access to and uses of the Property. An activity is an agritourism activity <br /> whether or not the participant paid to participate in the activity. <br /> The term"Special Events" shall be broadly defined to mean a one-time or <br /> infrequently occurring event outside normal "Agritourism"programs or activities that provides <br /> for a leisure, social or cultural experience outside the normal range of agritourism choices or <br /> beyond the everyday agricultural experience such as but not limited to: seasonal festivals, <br /> harvest celebrations, field days, square dances and the like. In no event shall "Special Events" <br /> exist in a manner that negatively impacts the Conservation Values. <br /> 2.6 Timber Harvest. Pursuant to a forest management plan prepared by the <br /> North Carolina Forest Service or a North Carolina Registered Forester and approved by the <br /> Grantees, trees may be removed, cut and otherwise managed so long as the trees are outside of <br /> the NCLWF Easement marked on the plat of survey recorded in Plat Book , Page <br /> Orange County Registry, and referenced in Exhibit B. The trees within the NCLWF Easement <br /> are subject to the terms of the NCLWF Easement. <br /> 2.7 Recreational Use. Consistent with the purpose of and the limitations <br /> contained in this Conservation Easement, Grantor shall have the right to engage in and permit <br /> others, whether or not for consideration, to engage in recreational uses of the Property, including, <br /> but not limited to, hiking, camping, picnicking, hor-sebaek t4di,,, r trieter-ized bieyeling, and <br /> other recreational uses that require no buildings, facilities, surface alteration or other <br /> development of the land so long as authorized by Orange County zoning regulations and <br /> consistent with permits required by and issued by Orange County under its laws and ordinances. <br /> Pursuit of wildlife by any form of motorized transportation is not allowed. Grantors may also <br /> construct and maintain fences, horse trails, foot trails, and or non-motorized vehicle trails <br /> incidental to such purposes and may lease or license any portion of the Property for such <br /> recreational purposes. Grantor reserves the right to promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and <br /> regulations for all activities incident to recreational use of the Property, including but not limited <br /> to the right to prohibit any recreational use that would permit destruction of other significant <br /> conservation value of the Property. <br /> 2.8 New Trails. Grantor reserves the right to construct and maintain new <br /> natural surface trails for the purpose of hiking. Grantees reserve the right to construct and <br /> maintain the NC Mountains-to-Sea Trail located within the identified trail corridor shown on <br /> Plat Book , Page . The trail is subject to the restrictions and allowances indicated in <br /> the "Deed of Trail Easement", Deed Book , Page of the Orange County Registry. It is <br /> hereby noted that the NC Mountains-to-Sea Trail corridor is located within the NCLWF <br /> Easement is expressly allowed according to Article II. E. of that easement. All trails must be <br /> located a minimum distance of fifty (50) feet from the top of the bank of all surface water,unless <br /> Page 9 of 22 <br />