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Conservation in the Piedmont Landowners of the nine counties in Virginia's Piedmont region put a total of 27,726 acres into conservation easement in 2006. County Acres Albemarle 6,396 Clarke 924 Culpeper 771 Fauquier 6,770 Greene 3,622 Loudoun 3,103 Madison 2,561 Orange 1,684 Rappahannock 1,895 Total 27.726 Loudoun, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock - have conserved more land than almost any state in the nation. In 2006, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation took more than 70,000 new acres into easement - an almost a 75 percent increase above the previous record set in 2005, said VOF Executive Director G. Robert Lee. Fiscal benefits According to a 2003 study by the American Farmland Trust done in Culpeper County, farms and other open lands use only 32 cents in local services for every dollar of taxes paid, while homes require $1.22 for
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