Press launch by Land Conservancy of Adams County on 5 June 2025
The final six months have been an especially busy time for the Land Conservancy of Adams County (LCAC) with a lot of easement closings guaranteeing the safety of agricultural magnificence for coming generations.
Tatman Property, photograph credit score Sarah Kipp
The 83-acre property of Sara and Jamey Tatman in Cumberland Township borders Marsh Creek and is almost surrounded by different preserved properties. It’s half-woods and half pasture, accommodating their new household dwelling in addition to horses, goats, pigs, alpacas, highland and longhorn cattle, chickens, and guineafowl. Proprietor Sara Tatman feels strongly about preserving the land – “We see nothing however farmland being turned over to residential and different developments. We need to be among the many choose few who protect farmland on this space.”
“We had important assist to get this conservation easement to the end line,” in accordance with Sarah Kipp, LCAC’s land conservation director. She stated funding was put collectively from the Adams County Neighborhood Basis’s Giving Spree, in addition to a grant from the county’s Inexperienced Area Grant Program and a donation from the American Battlefield Belief.
Boyer Property, photograph credit score Sarah Kipp
Within the coronary heart of Adams County’s intensive fruit belt, Boyer Nurseries and Orchards has preserved 159 acres in two conservation easements in Franklin Township. The easements connect with 900 acres preserved a decade in the past and full the preservation of ‘The House Farm’ with over 1,000 acres now completely preserved! Rainfall and comes on Boyer’s property drain to Marsh Creek, offering consuming water for Gettysburg residents. “We all know there are loads of pure springs and vernal swimming pools within the woodland behind the farm and it’s an vital water useful resource, so limiting improvement on this space was actually vital to us”, stated Emma Decrease, a fifth-generation co-manager. The Land Conservancy bought each easements on Boyer’s orchard land and forest with funding from the Pure Sources Conservation Service’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, the Adams County Inexperienced Area Grant Program, and LCAC’s personal funds raised via the Adams County Neighborhood Basis’s annual Giving Spree.
“We thank these non-public landowners for coming into into protecting agreements with our group, thereby demonstrating their imaginative and prescient for the longer term.”
– Dave Salisbury, LCAC president
About Land Conservancy of Adams County
Within the 30 years since its founding in 1995, the group has labored with native landowners to protect greater than 13,800 acres within the county via 197 separate easements. The Land Conservancy of Adams County is a completely accredited, member-supported nonprofit land belief that works to protect the agricultural lands and character of Adams County. For extra details about the Land Conservancy, go to PreserveAdams.org.
