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Phemister said.
Maryland, for example, commits land-transfer tax revenue to support its conservation efforts. Virginia could do likewise, Phemister suggested.
It’s important to remove the debate over conservation funding from the ongoing and sometimes precarious budget appropriations process, he argued.
Phemister praised Virginia’s program to give tax benefits to those who put easements on their land. But the “market-based” program doesn’t allow the conservancy, other groups or the state to “target strategic” property.
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