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Commissioners approve 10.6-acre addition to Farmland Legacy easement

Skagit County Board of Commissioners · January 20, 2026

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Summary

Skagit County commissioners voted to approve a Farmland Legacy amendment that adds 10.6 acres to an existing 39.11-acre conservation easement on property now owned by MLC Properties; the added acreage carries the same easement terms and entails no compensation to the owners.

Sarah Stoner, Skagit County’s Agricultural Lands Coordinator, told the board that the Farmland Legacy program is seeking to amend a grant deed of conservation easement between MLC Properties and Skagit County to attach adjacent open farmland to an existing protected parcel.

"The easement seeks to increase by 10.6 acres, the original easement footprint of 39.11 acres," Stoner said, and she explained that the…

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