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Conservation groups urge Wake Forest to fund natural areas program, accept bluff donation
Summary
The Wake Forest Conservation Alliance and other groups urged the Board of Commissioners to designate CIP funds for a natural areas program and asked the town to accept a donated bluff and place it under conservation easement.
Members of Wake Forest conservation groups urged the Board of Commissioners to add natural-area preservation to the town’s capital improvements planning and to accept donated conservation land that local groups say would protect watershed and habitat values.
Angela DePaolo, representing Wake Forest Conservation Alliance, told the board during a capital-improvements public hearing that most of Wake Forest’s original forest cover has been lost to development since the 1990s and that remaining mature forest patches and steep…
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