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Brown Conservation Easement Draft 8/28/03 7 <br />Prepared by and return to: Geoffrey E. Gledhill; Coleman, Gledhill & Hargrave; <br />P.O. Drawer 1529; Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />NORTH CAROLINA <br />COUNTY OF ORANGE <br />CONSERVATION EASEMENT <br />This Grant of Conservation Easement (hereinafter "Conservation Easement") is made the <br />day of , 2003 by and between REBECCA HALL BROWN, having an address <br />at 708 Mary E. Cook Road, Hillsborough, NC 27278 (hereinafter "Grantor") and ORANGE <br />COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, having an address of Post Office Box 8181, Hillsborough, <br />NC 27278 (hereinafter "Grantee"). <br />The designation Grantor and Grantee as used herein shall include said parties, their heirs, <br />successors and assigns, and shall include singular, plural, masculine, feminine or neuter pronouns <br />as required by context. <br />RECITALS <br />A. The Grantor are the sole owners in fee simple of certain Property, more <br />particularly described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein (the "Grantor's <br />Property") which consists of approximately _ acres of land, located in Chapel Hill Township, <br />Orange County, North Carolina, and identified as on the plat of property dated <br />titled " _ ," prepared by <br />which plat is recorded at Plat Book _ Page _, Orange County Registry. <br />These lands, comprising 1.2 acres, are hereinafter collectively referred to either "the Grantor's <br />Property" or the "Easement Area." To the extent practicable, the Grantor wishes to maintain the <br />Grantor's Property as a combination of woodland and open space suitable as habitat for the <br />native flora and fauna of the North Carolina Piedmont, and to protect the quality of water running <br />off from this land and into New Hope Creek. <br />B. The Grantee is a body politic existing under Chapter 153A of the North Carolina <br />General Statutes. <br />C. The Easement Area is a significant natural area that qualifies in its present <br />condition as a "...relatively natural habitat offish, wildlife, or plants, or similar ecosystem," as <br />that phrase is used in P.L. 96-541, 26 UCS 170(h)(A)(ii), as amended, and in regulations <br />promulgated thereunder. Specifically, the Easement Area is habitat for a variety of native plants <br />and animals described for this area on Pages 176-180 of the Inventory of the Natural Areas and <br />Wildlife Habitats of Orange County, North Carolina, written by Dawson Sather and Stephen <br />Hall and conducted for the Triangle Land Conservancy in coordination with the North Carolina <br />