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overall program to try to preserve this countryside by voluntary actiqn rather than trying to figure out how to do it all by regulation,” he said. The goal was to get landowners to surrender their right to develop their land, putting the property in easement.
Mr. Dennis had floated a similar plan when he interviewed for the PEC president’s job in 1972. At the time, he believes some on the PEC board “found it dangerous,” but by 1981, the conservation easement “was an idea whose time was coming along.”
He got the job that year, and today 10 to 15 percent of all donated easement acreSee
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