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Rowan County to seek state match, make conservation position full time to accelerate farmland easements
Summary
The Board voted to empower the county manager and attorney to work with the Soil & Water and Ag Advisory boards to apply for North Carolina’s Ag Growth Zone funding and to move the county’s part‑time conservation easement specialist to a full‑time position to handle rising demand for easements.
Rowan County commissioners on April 6 authorized the county manager and county attorney to work with the Soil and Water Conservation District and the Ag Advisory Board to pursue state Ag Growth Zone designation and to make the district’s part‑time conservation easement specialist a full‑time position.
The move is intended to accelerate voluntary conservation easements on farmland and to leverage county funding for state matching grants. Chris Sloop, director of the Rowan Soil and Water Conservation District, told the board the district has seen a sharp increase in landowner interest in easements as development pressure grows and that the county’s previously reserved present‑use‑value (PUV) rollback funds could be…
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