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Inmrf through private conservation ease* meats. The nine counties of Virginia's PiednHmt—including Loudoun, Clarke* Fauquier, % Culpeper, Rappahannock, Madison, Orange, Greene, and, Albemarle—have conserved more land than almost any state in the nation. ' r Bob Lee, the Executive Director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF), sa% 3%Calendar year 2007 witnessed the second highest annual acreage ini new Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) easements at 60,175 acres. VOF staff worked in collaboration with PEC staff to realize significant land conservation in each of the nine connties in the PEC service region. This year also represents 35 years of cooperative land conservation between VOF and PEC.” ® . 'According to a 2003 study that was done by the American Farmland Trust in Culpeper County, forms and other open lands use only $0.32 in load services for
every doBar of taxes pt^jadfife^homes
placed under permanent easement also kwrera the value used by the state to determine load ability to pay, which results in increased fimding from the Commonwealth for schools and other county services.
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