Teacher’s 128-acre family retreat now protected as part of wildlife corridor
A retired schoolteacher has placed a conservation easement on her 128-acre property in New York, ensuring it remains protected as a wildlife corridor. The land, which she purchased decades ago, will now be preserved from future development.
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This story highlights individual contributions to environmental conservation and the use of legal mechanisms to protect biodiversity.
When life doesn't give you time to breathe, you tend to look out for space to do the same yourself, deliberately. For Jeanne Paisley, a schoolteacher with three kids and a half-hour daily commute, there was a consistent wish for some room to breathe. According to The Land Steward, the Spring 2013 newsletter of the Finger Lakes Land Trust, Paisley had bought 128 acres of forests, fields and wetlands in the town of Richford in Tioga County, New York.A campsite she couldn't forgetIt all began with a family road trip. Paisley and her husband lived on Long Island and had no summer work. Thus, the couple decided to buy a tent and took their three children on a trip all over the United States and Canada.
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