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Rappahannock County landowners placed 847 acres under conservation easement in 1991, bringing the county total to 5,576 acres protected, according to the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC).
Four percent of all private land in Rappahannock is now protected— about naif the levels in Clarke and Fauquier counties.
Rappahannock’s 1991 easement donors: Susan Babcock, 271 acres; Robert and Catherine Dickey, 86; James and Mary Jamieson, 113; John and Shirley Krutilla, 130; George and Linda Paine, 32; Marie Ridder, 51; John and Isabel Sawhill, 39; and George and Sally Sharp, 175.
Statewide the voluntary easement program passed the 71,000 mark this year, almost all of it in the Northern Piedmont. T. Coleman Andrews, an Orange County landowner, put 919 acres in easement, leading the year’s donations.
Counties with total acres protected and the percent of private land protected: Albemarle, 9,715 acres, 2.1 percent; Clarke, 8,862 acres, 8.2 percent; Culpeper, 832 acres, 0.3 percent; Fauquier, 29,241 acres, 8.4 percent; Loudoun, 9,665
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