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Vermont Land Trust

Vermont Land Trust

American non-profit environmental organization

The Vermont Land Trust is a non-profit environmental organization in the U.S. state of Vermont, working to conserve productive, recreational, and scenic lands which give the state and its communities their rural character.

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History

The Vermont Land Trust was founded in 1977 by a group of citizens concerned about the rapidly accelerating development that threatened open space in Vermont. The founding group feared that state legislation Act 250 and local zoning was not strong enough to protect the rural character of the state.

Operation

The trust provides the money to purchase undeveloped land when necessary. It then protects the land with a special easement which prevents development. It then sells the land to interested purchasers, which may be the state government. In selling the land, the trust principal is continually renewed.[1]

The organization works with The Nature Conservancy.[2]

Officers

  • President - Gilbert Livingston. Salary - $101,079[3]
  • Vice-President - Barbara Wagner. Salary - $92,484[3]
  • Vice-President - Elise Annes. Salary - $76,820[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "About: the Vermont Land Trust conserves farms and forests for the future". Vermont Land Trust. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  2. [2]
    Gresser, Joseph (23 September 2009). "Land trust meeting begins in cedar swamp". Barton, Vermont: the Chronicle. p. 32.
  3. [3]
    Remsen, Nancy & Hallenbeck, Terri (January 30, 2009). NONPROFIT:Bill seeks cuts in some group's executive pay. Burlington Free Press.


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