Worm easement signed

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Dick and Jane Worm recently placed their 145-acre Faraway Farm, near Dubuque, in a conservation easement. This area is the largest private-owned area in the Mississippi Blufflands region to be protected by a conservation easement.

The Worms have owned this woodland/prairie for more than 20 years. The conservation easement stipulates that there is to be no development, no mining activities or other disturbances or natural features in the area.

Dick and Jane, high school teachers in Dubuque and Epworth, respectively, use the area to teach students about land conservation issues. "We look at the easement as an active three-way partnership among ourselves, the foundation and living things on the land," Dick said.

For more information, e-mail Cathy Engstrom, director of communications, or call (515) 288-1846.

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