26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Feb. 9, 1974
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voted to add 16000 to the
Conservation District’s
budget to hire a conservation
technician.
That technician will be
Abner Houseknecht, who has
been with the Soil Con*
servation Service (or some
.19 years. Houseknecht will
retire from his post as
conservation technician at
the end of March, and will
begin working for the
District on April 1. Another
technician will be hired to
replace Houseknecht on the
SCS staff, which means the
county will have two
technicians instead of one.
Orval Bass, who is in
charge of the local SCS of
fice, said Houseknecht will
be working on farm planning
and conservation ap
plications. “That means the
SCS staff will be able to
devote more attention to
some of the urban problems
we’ve been running into,"
Bass said. “Lancaster
County is probably unique in
the state, because we have
tremendous conservation
problems in both f
agricultural and urban
areas.”
Bass said his office is
trying to set up some method
of dealing with the
tremendous demand that
could develop for con
servation planning on county
farms, “We’re holding
meetings with farmers in
every school district in the
county, and we’re inviting
the vo-ag teachers to par
ticipate,” Bass said.
“Hopefully, the teachers will
be able to help the farmers
with some of the con
servation plans.”
Vo-ag teachers were also
mentioned by Secretary
Goddard as possibly being
able to help farmers develop
conservation plans.
In response to a question
from a farmer in the Dairy
Conference audience,
Goddard said he did not
forsee the day when farmers
would be required to keep all
their cattle out of streams.
He did say that manure
runoff would have to be
controlled, though, if far
mers were to comply with
clean streams regulations.
“I don’t want to leave
anybody with the impression
that DER is out to get far
mers,” Goddard com
mented. “We’re not. Last
year, in fact, our department
prosecuted only two farmers
for clean streams violations,
both in Westmoreland
County.”
Goddard commented also
on the clean and green
concept which would allow
farmland to be taxed accor
ding to its use, rather than
according to its market
value as a potential
development property. “I’m
not overly enthusiastic about
the concept,” he said
“Simply lowering taxes for a
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time will not do the job. We
- need mother way to protect
farmland and open space.
'Td like to see govern
ments buying development
rights to properties. By that I
mean paying the farmer not
to develop his property. Say,
for example, he lias a farm
worth 1200,000 • as a farm -
and his property has a
development value of
$250,000. The government
pays that farmer $50,000 for
his development rights and
puts a permanent lien
against that property. The
farmer can still sell for
$200,000, and he would get a
total of $250,000. But he
couldn’t sell it for
development. The nice thing
about this system is that we
can preserve open space
without having the govern
ment buy land outright. All
the land would still be
privately owned, but it just
couldn’t be developed. By
buying development rights,
we’re preserving private
property and at the same
time preserving open
space.”
Development rights in
Lancaster County are very
often worth more than the
land. “What happens,”
Goddard was asked, “when
you have a piece of land
that’s worth $50,000 for
farming, but development
rights are worth $200,000?
That’s what we have in
Lancaster County. How do
you preserve open space
here?”
The secretary thought
about the problem for a
minute and replied, “Maybe
it’s too late for Lancaster
County.”
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Mercer, Lawrence, Berks
and Chester counties have
been named the 1974 Youth
Representative Award
winners of the Pennsylvania
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Conservation District
Plans To Inventory
Recreation Facilities
A comprehensive inventory of the profit and non-profit
private outdoor recreational facilities is being conducted by
the Lancaster County Conservation District for the Lan
caster County area according to Aaron Z. Stauffer, Chairman
of the District Board of Directors. The inventory will be an
integral part of the nationwide effort of more than 3000 local
conservation districts to inventory these facilities during
January and February.
The inventory will reveal the types of outdoor recreational
facilities presently in existence in the county as well as the
extent of development. All information will be of an im
personal statistical nature and can be supplied without ad
ditional research by the owner or manager. Accurate current
inventory data is the basis for planning future recreational
areas and facilities within the county and throughout the
state and nation.
Public demand for outdoor recreational opportunities is at
an unprecedented level. Private facilities will have to supply
an increasingly' large of the nation’s outdoor
recreational needs to meet this demand.
The local conservation district office is located at Farm &
Home Center, Rm. 4, 1383 Arcadia Rd., Lancaster, and can
be contacted by phone at 299-5361 should more information on
the inventory be desired.
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