EPC WETLAND CONSERVATION EASEMENTS

The purpose of a conservation easement is to retain land or water areas in their natural, vegetative, hydrologic, scenic, open, agricultural or wooded condition and to retain such areas as suitable habitat for fish, plants or wildlife. EPC’s Wetlands Management Division is responsible for tracking and monitoring conservation easements that are deeded to EPC. This dataset was produced by digitizing legal descriptions using COGO methods. It is not a complete catalog of all conservation easements held by EPC. Many easement files contained insufficient information to produce an accurate boundary and have not been included; If sufficient documentation is produced in the future these easements will be added as that information becomes available. New easements will be added to this dataset as they are released. This dataset was produced through a joint effort by EPC and the HC Public Works Department.