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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Burlco getting $1 million to preserve land near base

Posted on Thu, Aug. 14, 2008
Phila. Inquirer
- Edward Colimore

Burlington County will receive more than $1 million from the Defense Department to preserve land in the military buffer zone around McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix through an agreement to be signed by the county freeholders. Freeholder Director Aubrey Fenton, who will sign the agreement with the Air Force, said preservation of land adjoining Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst "dovetails with the goals of the Joint Land Use Study currently under way by the Defense Department and Burlington and Ocean Counties."Added Freeholder Bill Haines Jr.: "We plan to use these federal funds to support the preservation of several farms totaling approximately 800 acres in the most critical areas of the two-mile-radius buffer zone." The county will use some of the money on the 125-acre Bell Farm in North Hanover. The other farms targeted for the funding are at various stages in the preservation process. Sixty-three farms totaling 6,673 acres have been preserved to date in the military buffer zone.
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