TALBOT COUNTY — Eastern Shore Land Conservancy closed 126 acres at Dorsey Farm in April — about 74 of them farmland — then the 70-acre Swann Farm easement in May. Swann put 49 acres in active agriculture and 17 in woods with 100-foot buffers. That lifted ESLC's Talbot total past 13,951 acres. A 153-acre Claggett family easement, the tenth for Herschell B. Claggett Sr., followed.
That is land that will not be a subdivision. It is still a farm. Nitrogen stays in a buffer instead of the Miles. Wildlife keeps a corridor. The county keeps working ground.
ESLC's job is the unglamorous one: a deed that outlasts a council term. If you own land and want it to stay land, ESLC is the Shore outfit that writes the paper. The Patriot will keep the acreage, not the ribbon-cutting.
Source: Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
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