For the same reason, many municipal officials support farmland preservation.

More than $60 million will be used by the state to purchase land for conservation, with another $50 million to pay for farmland preservation.

They recalled him as a benefactor committed to local farmland preservation and to raising money for the hospital.

No major parks have been acquired, it said, and meeting the goal for farmland preservation will take the state almost a century, at the present rate.

As a result, the state approves fewer than a dozen applications a year for farmland preservation while hundreds of others are routinely turned down.

He supported low taxes, farmland preservation and the restoration of critical watershed areas.

Other legislation Fay sponsored included campaign finance reform and farmland preservation.

She was articulate about farmland preservation and had a clear agenda for Greenmarket.

During this fiscal year, the state budget for farmland preservation was cut 25 percent, to $3 million.

Not all the efforts are geared strictly toward farmland preservation.