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Draft 8129105 (BOCC) 6 This instrument prepared by and return to: Geoffrey E Gledhill, Coleman, Gledhill, Hargrave & Peek, P C, P O. Drawer 1529, Hillsborough, NC 27278 NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ORANGE WARRANTY DEED OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT This Deed of Conservation Easement (hereinafter "Conservation Easement") is made on this _ day of 2005 by the CHARLES R. KEITH, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE BARBARA KEITH TRUST DATED MAY 8, 1997, having an address at 2131 Marion's Ford Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (hereinafter "Grantor" or "the Grantor") and ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, having an address of Post Office Box 8181, Hillsborough, NC 27278 (hereinafter "Grantee" or "the Grantee") .. The designation Grantor and Grantee as used herein shall include said parties, their heirs, successors and assigns, and shall include singular, plural, masculine, feminine or neuter pronouns as required by context. RECITALS A. The Grantor is the sole owner in fee simple of three contiguous tracts of real property located in Bingham Township, Orange County, North Carolina, and described on Exhibit A hereto, which is incorporated herein by reference. The three tracts together, comprising 36.03 acres, are hereinafter collectively referred to either as "the Grantor's Property" or the "Easement Area." The Easement Area includes buildings and other improvements, which are shown on Exhibit C, attached hereto and incorporated herein. To the extent practicable, the Grantor wishes to maintain the Easement Area as a combination of woodland and open space suitable as habitat for the native flora and fauna of the North Carolina Piedmont, and to protect the water quality of headwater streams running off from this land and into Morgan Creek, and to protect a portion of the Grantor's Property for an arboretum with native and non-native trees and shrubs.