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Lands Legacy Action Plan 2008-10 Draft 6. Joint Town/County Open Space: Continue collaborating with the towns and other entities in acquiring land for establishing or expanding rustic trails or greenways identified in town plans that tie together important County-wide open spaces. 7. Natural Areas on University-owned Lands: Continue working with University of North Carolina and Duke University on the protection of natural Areas on university- owned lands through various voluntary means. A. Commission for the Environment (CfE) Continue efforts to protect highly significant natural areas/wildlife habitat within Jordan Lake Macrosite (e.g., Mason Farm Oak-Hickory Forest), Seven Mile Creek (e.g., Sevenmile Creek Sugar Maple Bottoms), Upper Eno riparian buffers, Upper Bolin Creek corridor, Morgan Creek Bluffs, Meadow Flats, and Currie Hill. Pursue new opportunities to protect key portion of Crawford Mountain (Cane Creek Slopes) and the Upper Morgan Creek corridor. Agricultural Preservation hoard (APB) Continue County funding of the purchase of agricultural conservation easements from willing landowners-especially for farmland in areas near the municipalities that are most likely to be lost to development pressure in the next five to ten years. Pursue marching grant funds from the new NC Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund. Consider adding a provision to new easements that would require landowners that are no longer interested or able to farm themselves to make their land available for lease to other farmers, thereby keeping those lands in active production. 'C. Recreation and Parks Advisory Council (RPAC) Complete the acquisition of land for a future community park ("White Cross Park's in Bingham Township-the final park site recommended in the Orange County Master Recreation & Parks Plan (1988). Moreover, RPAC supports land acquisition (fee simple or easements) needed for linking existing and planned recreational trail corridors (i.e., greenways) identified in adopted plans for the New Hope Creek Corridor, the NC Mountains to Sea Trail, the Haw River Trail, and the Town of Hillsborough's plans for greenways along the Eno River (Riverwalk) and Cates Creek. D. Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) The HPC would like to explore the potential for the County purchase of sites where the focus would be to protect or preserve buildings with historical or architectural significance. Otherwise, continue efforts to acquire conservation easements to protect important cultural and/or archaeological resources in the Hall's Mill and Faucette's Mill communities (particularly Halls Mill dam site and ruins), along the New Hope Creek corridor (possible Native American 2