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vation to decide what incentives to provide.
“It would capture more counties and get to the point of what they were trying to do." she said.
Bob Lee. executive director of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, would welcome the increased state support.
“I think what they’re doing is creating as many options for protecting agricultural land uses for the fiiture as possible." he said.
This past Tuesday Governor Kaine announced that he had distributed $4.25 million in funding for PDR programs in fourteen localities across the state.
“For the past several years, we have lost valuable farmlands to development at an alarming rate," Kaine said. “Today we have taken an historic step to ensure that well-managed farmland around the Commonwealth will be preserved and available for continued agricultural use, now and into the future. These funds will benefit Virginia’s farmers, the local economies and the environment."
Rappahannock County was one of the fourteen counties that Kaine listed. It received $165,000.
E-mail the reporter at mpeikey@timespapers.com.
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