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Conservation is essential!
For our health ...
for our economy ...
We know North Carolina is facing difficult economic times. But clean air, clean drinking water and productive farmland are basic needs.
That's why CTNC urges lawmakers to protect North Carolina's investment in conservation and support policies that help us save the places you love.
SUCCESS IN 2010!
The FY 2010-11 budget - passed and signed by Governor Perdue on June 30th - included $50 million in recurring funds for the Clean Water Management Trust Fund and $2 million recurring for the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund. The budget also maintained funding for the Natural Heritage Trust Fund and the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund.
Read more about what we accomplished this year, the second year of the 2009-10 General Assembly. For full details on action taken on conservation policies and funding in this and earlier General Assemblies, download one of our legislative summaries from the box at the top right of this page.
Join Land for Tomorrow in thanking Governor Perdue and your legislators who supported appropriating $2 million to the ADFPTF and $50 million to the CWMTF. Let them know you appreciate their commitment to protecting North Carolina's valuable natural resources and the economic and cultural potential that they hold.
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CTNC supports state legislation that would:
- Clarify which properties owned by land trusts are exempt from property taxes when the land is being held temporarily before transfer to a government agency, or is being managed by the land trust for long-term conservation.
- Make the NC Conservation Tax Credit transferable and authorize Transfer of Development Rights programs at the local level to expand private resources available for conservation.
- Limit the loss of minority-owned land due to partition sales.
- Allow tax-exempt financing of land conservation projects.
In addition, CTNC supports the following federal legislative priorities:
- Passage of the Blue Ridge Parkway Protection Act to authorize $75 million over five years for land conservation along the Parkway.
- Increased funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
- Making permanent the expanded federal tax deduction for land conservation.
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