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The Virginia Depart merit of Forestry (Vl)OF' recorded its first conservation easement in Rappahannock County on Dec. 18.
Walter and Patricia Nicklin granted to the VDOF a working forest easement protecting over 124 acres on .Jefferson Mountain northwest of Amissville. The easement merges four tax parcels into a single property that limits future development. The property may never be divided in the future, conserving a large block of forestland in perpetuity.
This DOF easement means that 27,229 acres, or nearly 20 percent of the private land in Rappahannock County, is now protected bv conservation easements, according to Flint Hill resident Bob Dennis, a former head of the Piedmont Environmental Council
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