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March 2010
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Community Blogs
The mission of the New Berlin Land Conservancy Inc. is to encourage owners of significant lands to set aside such lands as open space for future generations and to help educate the community at large of the need to preserve ecologically significant areas.
Protecting Our Farms, Protecting our Communities
Protecting Our Farms, Protecting our Communities
In a proud moment last month, Wisconsin delivered on a promise made to its farmers. The new Working Lands Initiative will modernize Wisconsin’s 30-year-old Farmland Preservation Program, help farmers protect their land through a purchase of agricultural conservation easement program, and support the creation of agricultural enterprise areas. Approval for this initiative underscores the salient point that farms offer more than pastoral beauty—they are the backbone of regional economies and communities, provide food for our tables, and offer significant opportunity to protect our environment and natural resources.
Our working lands can only continue to provide for our communities, our tables, and the environment if we protect them. Over the last year we were able to continue our efforts to help secure a brighter future for farmland in places like Wisconsin. States all across the county are cutting much needed funding for farmland protection programs. We need more programs that take the long view and acknowledge that losing farms and farmland is not good for the economy, the community, or the environment. With farmland disappearing at an alarming rate, every two minutes gone by is another lost acre of farmland.
Sincerely,
Bob Wagner
Senior Director, Farmland Protection
American Farmland Trust
- Farmers market moving indoors November 7th for the winter
- Six working Lands Iniative Workshops scheduled
- Subdivisions and farming can co-exist to benefit both
- September 9 and 10 get your chance to see how the Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan will affect you.
- Protecting Our Farms, Protecting our Communities
- Why landowners should consider promising to keep their land in agriculture in perpetuity.
- New Berlin Land Conservancy urges you learn more about the Campaign for Wisconsin's Farm and Forest Lands
- Governor Doyle proposes new initiatives to protect Wisconsin's working lands as part of biennial budget
- Statement by Potential Candidates for first White House Farmer
- American Farmland Trust to be Featured at Wisconsin Land Use Workshops in February and March
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