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more funds are available than were available during our promotional efforts in the past. <br />Land protection promotion should be renewed with consideration of current funding <br />options. <br />Conservation Easements — ACD holds conservation easements on three properties in <br />Anoka County; a 65 acre parcel in the City of Nowthen that is being restored to prairie <br />and savanna, a 200 acre parcel owned by the City of Anoka along the Rum River, and <br />45 acres on the south shore of Deer Lake in East Bethel. <br />Technical and administrative assistance is provided to landowners interested in <br />donating a conservation easement. Preparation of easement documents and natural <br />resource management plans can be very time consuming and expensive to contract for <br />in the private sector. <br />This expense can <br />be a large deterrent <br />to interested <br />landowners. <br />Once easements <br />are established, :4) Vic- <br />annual inspections <br />and meetings with _ <br />45 acre conservation easement held byACD. <br />the landowner are Property owned and managed by the MN ONR <br />important to ensure <br />that there are no <br />easement violations <br />and that progress is <br />being made on <br />approved management <br />plans. A lack of easement <br />maintenance funding to implement <br />management plans has been <br />identified as an issue that staff needs to <br />address. ACD's policy is to partner with the <br />local municipality so that they can assume the <br />enforcement authority. <br />Ownership — ACD is able to own property. A <br />landowner in St. Francis donated a conservation - Figure 21: ACD <br />easement on 70 acres to the MN Land Trust and r a Protected Properties <br />the fee title to ACD. ACD took ownership of the <br />property in 2011. <br />Conservation Development— Land protection will be encouraged during the <br />development review process when the development is located on an identified wildlife <br />corridor. Local government units have broad authorities to help preserve high priority <br />parcels during the development process. Continuing to work with them to develop plans <br />and procedures to facilitate this will remain a strategy of the ACD. <br />5' <br />68.5Acre conservation easement held by MN Land Trust. l <br />Property owned and managed byAC;LI <br />jf 64I18 acre conservation easement held byACLI. <br />J Property owned and managed by Melanie Kern <br />41 T <br />�t <br />MN 6 <br />15 <br />200 acre conservation easement held byACD. <br />Property owned and managed by the City of Anoka <br />Anoka Conservation District Comprehensive Plan October 2014 page 29 <br />