Thursday, Jul 01,2010, 11:45AM

Ransmeier & Spellman’s Land Conservation Group was pleased to assist our client, Five Rivers Conservation Trust, complete the Bohanan Farm conservation project on June 30, 2010.  The project involved the sale by the land owners, Glenn and Adelemarie Bohanan and Jamie and Heather Robertson, of two conservation easements to 5RCT and the Town of Hopkinton.  Acquired with the use of federal and state grants, the Town’s open space conservation bond, and extremely generous private donations, the easements will provide permanent protection to some 413 acres of prime agricultural land, open space, and river frontage in Hopkinton.  One of only three operating dairy farms remaining in Hopkinton, Bohanan Farm is uniquely situated at the confluence of the Contoocook, Warner and Blackwater Rivers, and includes more than four miles of river frontage. The property includes hundreds of acres of exceptionally important agricultural land, and the Farm was the top-ranked New Hampshire proposal for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm & Ranchland Protection Program funding in 2009.  The easements prevent further development or subdivision, protect the property’s productive soils and support continued agricultural use, and require that the Farm’s present and future owners keep the land open for traditional low impact uses such as hiking, hunting, fishing, boating and cross-country skiing.