The U.S. Forest Service recently took ownership of over 2,700 acres of unconserved private property in the Green Mountain National Forest, permanently protecting it from development.
The largest remaining piece of unconserved private property in the Green Mountain National Forest has been permanently protected from development.
"There are what we understand to be about 30 acres of old growth forest," said Shelby Semmes, the vice president for the New England region at the Trust for Public Land."The property itself really encompasses this undulating landscape through kind of the heart of the Greens." The federal Land and Water Conservation Fund provided critical support and donations came from large foundations as well as from Vermont residents.
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