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MassWoods Forest Conservation Program

 

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Provoust Case: Lessons Learned
  • Enabling the Community Land Trust Model- in which land ownership is separated from the improvements ownership.
  • Preserving land and enabling farming to remain affordable.
  • Enacting long-term leases and affordability clauses.
  • Setting up a community resource whilst preserving land.
  • Establishing a mode for a Land Trust or Conservation group to preserve land without bearing the costs and liability for the structures that may be within or part of that land.