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Open Space
The Exeter Conservation Commission
is an official town organization set up to direct conservation
efforts. For contact information, click here.
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| Exeter's protected
open space consists of 7,000 acres, or 19% of all of Exeter.
The Arcadia Management Area in western Exeter overlying
the Wood aquifer and Audubon protected lands in eastern
Exeter overlying the Queens aquifer make up the majority
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Exeter's main recreation
areas are the Arcadia Management area in western Exeter,
Audubon's Epley Wildlife
Refuge in southeastern Exeter, numerous golf courses,
and the two lakes equipped with boat ramps.
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Barber
Pond
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| There are several RI Greenways
that go through the town of Exeter, RI. The establishment
of "Greenways" is one aspect of a plan
implemented by the RI Statewide Planning Office to provide
a vision of an integrated, statewide greenway network,
and provide strategies to advance protection of valuable
resource lands, encourage transportation alternatives,
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Exeter's Comprehensive Plan outlines several
recommendations for the preservation of the town's rural character
and sole source aquifer through the preservation of its open
space.
- Encourage the acquisition
of open space not only through outright acquisition, but
with the use of other available tools: acquisition of rights
less than ownership, regulatory devices, assessment and
tax policies.
- Preserve open space
"Green Belts" to protect residential environments
from conflicting land uses
- Strengthen the town's
efforts to acquire or otherwise protect all waterbodies,
wet areas, streams and other natural reservoirs.
For an excellent example of one way to
perform an open space assessment, see this thesis
study by Brown student, Matthew Amengual '01.
For additional information about acquiring
land for the preservation of open space, see this DEM site
on land acquisition. Here
you will find all the information and forms necessary to propose
a particular parcel of land for open space acquisition.
For more information about the RI Greenways
Council, call (401) 277-6479, or go here
to look at a calendar of Greenways meetings in 2001.
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