On
August 22, 2013, the Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Preservation Board announced
the recent purchase of conservation easements on 3,246 acres of Pennsylvania farmland.
The newly preserved farmland is located in
Adams, Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Clinton, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fulton,
Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Monroe, Montgomery,
Northampton, Sullivan and Westmoreland counties.
Established
in 1988, “the Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program (PACEPP)
was developed to strengthen Pennsylvania's agricultural economy and protect
prime farmland.” PACEPP allows state,
county and local governments to purchase the development rights (known as
conservation easements) of specifically targeted Pennsylvania farmland. Since its inception, PACEPP has spent over
$1.2 billion in acquiring conservation easements on 478,246 acres of farmland located
throughout fifty seven different counties in Pennsylvania.
For
more information regarding PACEPP, please see the PA Department of Agriculture Bureau
of Farmland Preservation Website.
For
more information regarding farmland preservation, please see the Penn State
Agricultural Law Resource & Reference Center’s Publications Library.
Written
by M. Sean High – Research Fellow
Agricultural
Law Resource & Reference Center
Penn
State University, The Dickinson School of Law
August
27, 2013
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