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Obama, Hillary and every radical in the Progressive/commie party is PUSHING for this.
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Conservation Easements in Ohio and in Montana 17 Years Ago
Agenda 21 advocates replace farmers in droves
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh -- Bio and Archives July 18, 2015
United Nations agencies working against the economic needs and wishes of U.S. citizens compiled a blueprint for achieving Sustainable Development called U.N. Agenda 21. This 40-chapter document (about 300 pages) addresses every facet of human life and how Sustainable Development should be implemented through local, state, and federal government.
With its grant-making power (‘visioning grants’ and ‘challenge grants’) and conservation easements, the federal government promoted the Sustainable Development idea and policies to the state and local levels with the creation of an army of new community of Sustainable Development NGOs (non-government organizations) such as the American Planning Association, the Sustainable Resource Center, and the Institute for Sustainable Development.
Conservation easements, known also as conservation covenants, agricultural easements, and conservation restrictions are contracts between a landowner and a conservation organization, giving the conservation trust power over the use of the land for years or in perpetuity. Such easements “run with the land,” and present and future landowners must abide by this conservation contract which is recorded in the local land records as the easement becomes part of the title for the property.
Conservations easements include a laundry list of objectives established by the land trust and agreed to by the farmer:
In every state, the actual conservation easement contract is kept private between the land owner and the land trust.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced its local agricultural easements approved for purchase on June 4, 2015 for “local sponsors to purchase agricultural easements on 54 family farms representing 7,512 acres in 26 counties.”
The local sponsors included land trusts, counties, a township, and local Soil and Water Conservation Districts. They received funds to make the purchase from the Clean Ohio Fund and to manage the Local Agricultural Easement Purchase Program (LAEPP). The easement purchases are advertised as insurance that “farms remain permanently in agricultural production.” The ulterior motives are much divorced from this public statement.
Farmers who want to lock their land in such conservation easement contracts are financially rewarded and must meet certain criteria:
all of it here:
Agenda 21 advocates replace farmers in droves
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Conservation Easements in Ohio and in Montana 17 Years Ago
Agenda 21 advocates replace farmers in droves
With its grant-making power (‘visioning grants’ and ‘challenge grants’) and conservation easements, the federal government promoted the Sustainable Development idea and policies to the state and local levels with the creation of an army of new community of Sustainable Development NGOs (non-government organizations) such as the American Planning Association, the Sustainable Resource Center, and the Institute for Sustainable Development.
Conservation easements, known also as conservation covenants, agricultural easements, and conservation restrictions are contracts between a landowner and a conservation organization, giving the conservation trust power over the use of the land for years or in perpetuity. Such easements “run with the land,” and present and future landowners must abide by this conservation contract which is recorded in the local land records as the easement becomes part of the title for the property.
Conservations easements include a laundry list of objectives established by the land trust and agreed to by the farmer:
- Maintain and improve water quality (this may include onerous conditions to the farmer’s use or collection of water, including rain puddles and snowmelt)
- Grow healthy forests
- Maintain and improve wildlife habitat and migration corridors
- Protect scenic views; anything the farmer may desire to build or plant/grow cannot interfere with the view shed
- Land must be managed for sustainable agriculture and forestry as determined by the trust that holds the farmer’s conservation easement and is subject to rigorous and frequent inspections.
In every state, the actual conservation easement contract is kept private between the land owner and the land trust.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced its local agricultural easements approved for purchase on June 4, 2015 for “local sponsors to purchase agricultural easements on 54 family farms representing 7,512 acres in 26 counties.”
The local sponsors included land trusts, counties, a township, and local Soil and Water Conservation Districts. They received funds to make the purchase from the Clean Ohio Fund and to manage the Local Agricultural Easement Purchase Program (LAEPP). The easement purchases are advertised as insurance that “farms remain permanently in agricultural production.” The ulterior motives are much divorced from this public statement.
Farmers who want to lock their land in such conservation easement contracts are financially rewarded and must meet certain criteria:
all of it here:
Agenda 21 advocates replace farmers in droves
