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The Trust Fund is currently not accepting applications (effective Summer 2009).

If you have any questions please contact Julie Peck-Dabling at 468-3571, email.

Project Selection Criteria

The Trust Fund committee considers a wide range of values, public benefits, and location when making recommendations. The Committee is striving to develop a diverse portfolio of critical lands for the public and future generations. The committee considers:

Cost: the terms of the acquisition will allow the County to maximize its assets and leverage the Trust Fund through landowner donations, discounts, funding partnerships, and donations

Community benefit: the project will be beneficial to local communities and the County at large

Conservation: the project protects lands that are important for ecological health and function

Human renewal: projects have scenic and aesthetic values and provide respite, renewal, and solitude

Connectivity: the project will add to the existing or planned open space system and enhance ecological, hydrological, and recreational vitality

Stewardship: the project will be protected in perpetuity and its open space conservation values will be preserved through good management and enforcement

Feasibility: the project is for land that is largely or entirely in an undisturbed and natural state and will be maintained as such