Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:34:32 -0500 From: "Keith Sanders" <sanders@law.ufl.edu> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3375$foo@default> Subject: Re: Saving bogs: the good news
That's unbelievably cool. I can't believe that so many agencies
came together like that.
I'll have to look it up on the map and visit it next year. Thanks for
telling the list about it.
-Keith
On 22 Nov 00, at 9:15, Marj Boyer wrote:
>
> Well, the good news is that CP's, private landowners, the government and
> non-profit conservation groups can ALL win sometimes.
>
> Next week we're celebrating the establishment of the Boiling Spring
> Lakes Preserve, a chunk of land in southeastern North Carolina that's
> rife with Venus flytraps, a lot of other CP's and a long list of rare
> species including the federally-listed roughleaf loosestrife and
> red-cockaded woodpecker. The preserve, which will eventually total about
> 5400 acres, came about thus:
>
> - The private landowner freely offered it for sale.
> - The Nature Conservancy (TNC) wanted to buy it but didn't have the
> funds ready.
> - The government (the State of North Carolina, via the Plant
> Conservation Program (PCP) in the state Dept. of Agriculture) could get
> the money through the state Heritage Trust Fund which is funded by the
> sale of vanity license plates (i.e. nobody's forced to pay taxes for the
> fund).
> - So TNC and PCP made an agreement: the State will hold title to the
> land as a dedicated nature preserve in perpetuity, while TNC will manage
> the preserve.
>
> TNC's happy, the State is happy, the seller is happy, the town of
> Boiling Spring Lakes is happy (they're getting a little piece of the
> land for a needed town facility as part of the deal), and the Venus
> flytraps, Droseras, Pinguiculas, Sarracenias, and Utricularias that grow
> there should live happily ever after.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving!
>
> Marj Boyer, Botanist, PCP
>
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