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through the purchase of development rights.
Closer to home, development pressures that are now affecting our neighbors in Fauquier, Culpeper, Madison, and Warren counties also will have an impact on Rappahannock.
These ominous developments present a special challenge to the Krebser Fund as it tries to influence open land policies and practices in our own county.
Tb preserve agriculture as a viable economic activity which, in turn helps maintain our scenic beauty, easements assist hard-working farmers gain needed capital by placing an easement on their land and earning a substantial state tax credit that they can use or sell.
Farmers also benefit from reduced appraisal values on their land, thus lightening their tax burden.
In additipn to encouraging working farms, easements made possible by programs such as the Krebser Fund help protect our county’s growing tourism—an increasingly major “green” industry in Rappahannock.
Currently, over 20,000 acres—some 20 percent of all privately owned land in Rappahannock County—is now protected from future development by easements.
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