Brown County Hills - McKinney Property
Indiana, Brown County

Size
146.2 acres

Price
$526,644.00
The property is or will be encumbered by a conservation easement as described below.

Description
146 acres of wooded hilly Brown County terrain, assembled by previous owners and TNC to prevent development and futher parcelization. Nice 2a fishing lake with unrestricted 19a building envelope surrounded by forest.

Primary Conservation Objective
Brown County Hills offers a unique opportunity to conserve a large, relatively unfragmented forested system in the Northern Interior Low Plateau Ecoregion. The McKinney property falls into 12,700 acre priority conservation area that has been identified as a core block for interior forest breeding birds.

Biodiversity Highlights
The larger Brown County Hills Forest block is a stronghold for neotropical migratory songbirds that require large, contiguous blocks or forest for nesting and breeding. The TNC-McKinney property is part of one of these contiguous forest blocks that provides ideal habitat for forest interior songbirds. By keeping the TNC-McKinney property primarily forested, we conserve a property that not only provides needed habitat for forest interior songbirds, but also protects other forest plants and animals, helps maintain diverse forest structure, protects a variety of forest community types and reduces the impact that fragmentation of the forest can have on the plants and animals that depend on large contiguous blocks of forest.

Qualifications and Restrictions
No subdivision. Single residence (& related outbuildings) allowed within 19 acre building envelope around small fishing lake. Timber outside envelope protected by conservation easement allowing for management at TNC discretion, 5% royalty due owner at time of harvest. Buyer must sign conflict of interest disclosure form.

Lost Fisherman Lake and Snow © TNC

For more information, please contact:

Les Zimmer
1505 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

Phone: 317-951-8818
E-mail: lzimmer@tnc.org