Property owners briefed on details of Fort Drum training area buffer program

The post has shifted its focus to the south because of concerns about wind turbines.

By GORDON BLOCK
TIMES STAFF WRITER

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012

COPENHAGEN — As Fort Drum and affiliated groups push their land conservation focus to property south of the installation, farmers received a pitch on a program that would purchase their long-term development rights.

The Army Compatible Use Buffer program, a partnership among the post, the Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited, has spent more than $3 million in the past few years to limit development in areas deemed important by the post. Eleven projects have been included in the program, which covers about 2,430 acres around the post, primarily on its western side. [Watertown Times]