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Rural Vermont warns conservation planning may leave farmland unprotected, calls for broader land‑access reforms
Summary
Caroline Sherman Borden told the committee that conservation planning under Act 51 and regional mapping under Act 181 have proceeded with inadequate agricultural input, and that conservation easements alone may not keep land affordable or available for future farmers; she urged substantive land‑access reform.
Caroline Sherman Borden, legislative director of Rural Vermont, told the committee that the state's planning work under the Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act (Act 51 of 2023) is entering a planning phase that, in her view, has insufficient agriculture representation and public engagement.
Borden said the technical advisory committee for the conservation plan includes a single farmer who was not part of the inventory phase and that…
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