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From the Mason-Dixon Line to the Chesapeake Bay, and from the Gunpowder River to
the Susquehanna, Harford County contains some of Maryland's loveliest
and most varied countryside. Located right on the busy corridor between
Baltimore and the major cities of the Northeast, it still has
ecologically-vital tidal marshes, rolling uplands, clear streams, a
viable and diverse agricultural economy, and valuable forests. Rare
plants and animals still survive in the county, and the conservation
ethic is well established among its residents.
However, because of its natural resources as well as its convenient location,
Harford County continues to grow, and growth brings challenges to
conservationists.
The Harford Land Trust is Harford County's first and only county-wide land trust.
Organized in 1991 by local residents, it joins over 40 other land trusts
protecting land throughout Maryland.
Land trusts are non-profit groups that protect land directly by acquiring it
through gift or purchase (sometimes for later conveyance to a government
agency), by establishing conservation easements that place permanent
legal restrictions on future development, by negotiating limited
developments, and by other methods. They may also be involved in land
conservation education and advocacy.
Land trusts operate in rural, urban, and suburban areas, protecting natural areas,
wildlife habitat, coastlines, farmland, urban gardens, trails and other
special places. There are over 1000 land trusts in every state of the
nation. Collectively, they have over 800,000 members and have protected
over 2 million acres of land.
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