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Green Mountain Club director tells Senate committee Long Trail is 98% legally protected; about 4.5 miles remain
Summary
Molly Flanagan, director of land conservation at the Green Mountain Club, told the Senate Institutions committee the 272-mile Long Trail is now 98% legally protected after four decades of work; roughly 4.5 miles across about 14 private parcels remain without formal protection. GMC reported recent project completions and said it has no funding request this session.
Molly Flanagan, director of land conservation at the Green Mountain Club, told the Senate Institutions committee on March that the 272-mile Long Trail is now 98% legally protected but that roughly 4.5 miles remain on private parcels without formal protection.
"The Long Trail is now 98% legally protected," Flanagan said, adding that those remaining unprotected segments amount to about 4.5 miles spread across roughly 14 parcels, from short 300-foot gaps to one stretch just under 1.5 miles. She said the club has conserved more than 25,000 acres and completed about 100 real-estate transactions since the campaign began.
The update traced the program’s history back to a 1985 joint resolution in which the Vermont General Assembly described the Long Trail protection campaign as "unique, historic, and irreplaceable" and committed…
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