41.   Along with government agencies, they help protect several million acres under conservation easements across the nation.

42.   He called the deal the largest land conservation easement in the United States.

43.   In the trust, ranchers place a conservation easement on their land, forfeiting the right to develop or subdivide the property.

44.   It also allows for continued commercial logging on land that is covered by conservation easements, Spitzer said.

45.   It also will pour millions of federal dollars into conservation easements, which can be used to help ranchers and farmers keep their land away from developers.

46.   The county will purchase land parcels, conservation easements and development rights from any willing seller.