150 Ryan Rd, Dummerston, VT 05301

Conservation District

Conservation areas are so designated because of their value to the town’s and region’s ecosystems. They are predominantly lands with higher elevations that have a mostly remote and undeveloped forested landscape and high natural, scenic or other special resource values such as unfragmented wildlife habitat and connecting habitat areas. Due to substantial physical limitations for development in these areas (such as steep terrain), existing residential development is low density and scattered mostly along town roads. Included in the conservation areas are publicly-owned lands, lands with conservation easements, and much of the forest land enrolled in the State’s Use Value Appraisal Program.; The priority and purpose of the conservation areas is to maintain large tracts of undeveloped land, much of which is forested, that has wildlife habitat, watershed, conservation corridor, and other natural resource values. To this end, permitted land uses in these areas should be limited primarily to forestry, agricultural, low density residential, and accessory uses to the permitted uses on the same lot.