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From Easements
- Market price for land
- Reduction for agreeing not to develop as residential/industrial
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Land price drops
- Trusted-valuer required to estimate
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Funding pays the landowner for 'loss'
- sources hard to find
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Uses
- Peri-urban anti-development
- Preservation of Ecology rich locations
- Offsets possible
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Land Trust monitors
- existing, legally binding arrangement via contract system
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Enablements
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Soils
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% soil cover with biomass at depth - goal 100% @ 50mm or more
- mulches
- ground cover plants
- SOM/Soil carbon (biochar) from 0 to 6% (12%) goal
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Soil moisture goal
- Reverse 20% soil drying
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Arroyos of all sizes
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% micro-dammed, catchments created and other water retention strategies in place
- towards zero surface run-off (zero erosion/silt), maximum infliltration
- Summary
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Land use designations) approx and integrated
- 30% plantings for biodiversity
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of remaining 70%
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60% land in harvestable biomass producing vegetation
- trees, cacti, perennial grasses
- agave/mequite silage
- building timbers
- medicinals
- edibles (fruits. coffee, nuts, fungi)
- Cropping for home folks + (mostly calories) @ 30% area
- 10% for greens, half for sale if practicable
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Functioning commoning with neighbors
- virtual fencing (radio based)
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5 year capacity for extra system set up labor
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living quarters
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some of which
- become ectourist accomodation once set-up complete
- natural building
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repopulate rural areas
- families, children