Effective June 8, 2000, West Virginia enacted the Voluntary Farmland Protection Act. The Act establishes a two-tier system to allow landowners to voluntarily protect their farmland. A state entity, the West Virginia Agricultural Land Protection Authority was established as an independent board under the Department of Agriculture to accept conservation easements from landowners. In addition, the Act allows the County Commission of each county to establish a county Farmland Protection Board to develop a local protection program and to hold easements. A conservation easement offer can be made to your local Farmland Protection Board, or if a funded board does not exist in your county, to the West Virginia Agricultural Land Protection Authority.

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1900 Kanawha Boulevard East
Charlestown, West Virginia  25305
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