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Summit County conservation group seeks $250,000 from ESAP for 2,300-acre Echo Canyon easement; committee delays vote for lack of quorum
Summary
Summit Lands Conservancy requested up to $250,000 from the Eastern Summit County Agriculture Preservation (ESAP) fund toward a bargain-sale conservation easement on about 2,300 acres in Echo Canyon; the advisory committee reviewed the proposal but did not vote because it lacked a quorum.
Summit Lands Conservancy asked the Eastern Summit County Agriculture Preservation and Open Lands Advisory Committee on Dec. 14 to consider contributing up to $250,000 toward a bargain-sale conservation easement on about 2,300 acres in Echo Canyon owned by the Wright family.
Kate Saddlemyer of Summit Lands Conservancy presented the project, saying the deal is structured as a bargain-sale conservation easement and that the conservancy has secured most of the purchase funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). "We are asking ESAP here for $250,000," Saddlemyer said, adding that ESAP’s contribution would be the program maximum or roughly 10% of the easement value.
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