Natural Lands definition

Natural Lands means an area of relatively undeveloped land which has substantially retained its characteristics as provided by nature or has been substantially restored, or which can be feasibly restored to a near-natural condition and which derives outstanding value from its wildlife, scenic, open space, parkland or recreational characteristics, or any combination thereof.
Natural Lands means lands consisting of wetlands,
Natural Lands means an area of relatively undeveloped land which:

Examples of Natural Lands in a sentence

  • Review and negotiate any transaction or activity that will result in real property interests being added to the city’s inventory, including, but not limited to acquisitions funded by the city’s Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund and dedications of real property interests to the city.

  • The Protected Natural Lands Inventory is a comprehensive database of public and private native vegetative communities that have been protected through acquisition or regulatory mechanisms and are managed for conservation purposes.

  • New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, State Parks, Forests & Historic Sites, State Forest Fire Service & Forestry, Office of Natural Lands Management, New Jersey Natural Heritage Program, Trenton, NJ.

  • This site is not included in the Protected Natural Lands Inventory and is not adjacent to a site in the inventory.

  • If you are interested in becoming a Trust volunteer monitor or attending a workday, please contact the New Jersey Natural Lands Trust at 609-984-1339, or emailNatLands@dep.state.nj.us.

  • A certified copy of Resolution 2008-89 was forwarded to the Office of Natural Lands Management on December 19, 2008.

  • There shall be established a Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund and an Affordable Housing Fund.

  • We are not moving forward with any further development of a passive recreational plan(s) at this point until we receive a response from the Office of Natural Lands Management regarding our grant application (please refer to report item #13 below).

  • Provides open space that is reasonably contiguous and whose configuration is in accordance with the guidelines contained in the Design and Management Handbook for Preservation Areas, produced by the Natural Lands Trust.

  • ONLM: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Parks and Forestry, Office of Natural Lands Management.


More Definitions of Natural Lands

Natural Lands means lands that support native plants and animals of a mixture representative of the natural ecology of the area. Such lands may be subject to management, recreational and resource harvesting activities that will not significantly change the ecological characteristics of the land.
Natural Lands means lands consisting of forests, grasslands, deserts, freshwater and riparian systems, wetlands, coastal and estuarine areas, watersheds, wildlands, or wildlife habitat, or lands used for recreational purposes such as parks, urban and community forests, trails, greenbelts, and other similar open-space land. For purposes of this paragraph, “parks” includes, but is not limited to, areas that provide public green space.

Related to Natural Lands

  • Agricultural lands means land currently used for the purpose of producing an agricultural commodity for commercial purposes, land left fallow under a crop rotational program, or land enrolled in an agricultural subsidy or set-aside program.

  • Tribal lands means all lands within the exterior boundaries of any Indian reservation and all dependent Indian communities.

  • Agricultural land means land suitable for use in farming.

  • Tribal Land means all lands within the exterior boundaries of any land formally designated by the federal government as a Tribal reservation or land set apart by the federal government for a Tribe’s use such as pueblos and tribal trust lands but it does not include land that the Tribe acquired legal title through non-federal designation or award, unless 1) the tribe has obtained a federal public law stating that the Tribal members who reside in a particularly named area shall be considered (without any fiscal year limitation) for the purposes of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or such other federal housing law as residing on an Indian reservation or other Indian area; or 2) the tribe has acquired the land under Public Law 99-503 that provided for the replacement of certain lands within the Gila Bend Indian Reservation, the Secretary of the Interior holds such land in trust for the benefit of the tribe, and such land is deemed to be a Federal Indian Reservation for all purposes. The Project must be wholly located in the particular area stated in the federal public law to be considered to be Tribal Land.

  • Lands means the purchase of real property or interest in real property.

  • Subject Lands means the lands subject to or covered by the oil and gas leases described in Exhibit A, insofar and only insofar as they are located within the AMI Area and cover the Target Formation, subject to the exceptions, exclusions and reservations set forth on such Exhibit A.

  • Said Land shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Paragraph I above and which is more fully and particularly described in the First Schedule written hereunder and delineated and demarcated in Annexure – A hereto;

  • residential land means land used or capable of being used for residential purposes (but does not include land on which there is no residential dwelling).

  • communal land means land under the jurisdiction of a traditional council determined in terms of section 6 of the Eastern Cape Traditional Leadership and Governance Act, (Act 4 of 2005) and which was at any time vested in -

  • Water well means an excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, augered, washed, driven, dug, jetted, or otherwise constructed for the purpose of exploring for groundwater, monitoring groundwater, utilizing the geothermal properties of the ground, or extracting water from or injecting water into the aquifer. “Water well” does not include an open ditch or drain tiles or an excavation made for obtaining or prospecting for oil, natural gas, minerals, or products mined or quarried.

  • Area C means areas of the West Bank outside Areas A and B, which, except for the issues that will be negotiated in the permanent status negotiations, will be gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction in accordance with this Agreement.

  • Crown lands has the same meaning as is given to that term by the Land Act;

  • Gas well means a well producing gas or natural gas from a common source of gas supply as determined by the commission.

  • Oil well means any well capable of producing oil or oil and casinghead gas from a common source of supply as determined by the commission.

  • exploration area means that part of the Area allocated to the Contractor for exploration, described in schedule 1 hereto, as the same may be reduced from time to time in accordance with this contract and the Regulations;

  • Horizontal well means a well bore drilled laterally at an angle of at least eighty (80) degrees to the vertical or with a horizontal projection exceeding one hundred (100) feet measured from the initial point of penetration into the productive formation through the terminus of the lateral in the same common source of supply.

  • mineral lease means the mineral lease referred to in clause 8(1)(a) hereof and includes any renewal thereof;

  • Contiguous zone means the entire zone established by the United States under Article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (37 FR 11906 June 15, 1972).

  • Area A means the area marked “Area A” outlined in red on the Plan (excluding that part shaded grey on the Plan);

  • Concession Area means particulars of the area as more particularly described in Form A of West Bengal Minor Minerals (Auction) Rules, 2016.

  • Indian lands means lands owned by the United States and held for the use or benefit of Indian tribes or bands or individ- ual Indians and lands within the boundaries of a federally recog- nized reservation that are owned by Indian tribes or bands or indi- vidual Indians.

  • Project Land means any parcel or parcels of land on which the project is developed and constructed by a promoter;

  • Area B means the area marked “Area B” outlined in orange on the Plan;

  • Acreage means the number of acres of land area of an Assessor's Parcel as shown on an Assessor's Parcel Map, or if the land area is not shown on an Assessor’s Parcel Map, the Board may rely on the land area shown on the applicable final map, parcel map, condominium plan, or other recorded County parcel map.

  • Residential rental property means property that is used solely as leased or rented property for residential purposes. If the property is a space rental mobile home park, residential rental property includes the rental space that is leased or rented by the owner of that rental space but does not include the mobile home or recreational vehicle that serves as the actual dwelling if the dwelling is owned and occupied by the tenant of the rental space and not by the owner of the rental space.

  • Land means the land described in Exhibit A.