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peripheral to the central issue.
The central issue, which Burns and McDonnell fail entirety to address, is the relationship between the power line proposal and existing easements - and, beyond that, the future of Virginia's nationally - admired conservation easement programs.
The magnitude of this issue is enormous. Conservation easements already protect a huge number of acres in Virginia, and the Commonwealth has plans for more. A single agency of the Commonwealth - the Virginia Outdoors Foundation — reports that it holds easements to more than 400,000 acres statewide. Easements covering
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