would be much better off if the land would have stayed state owned
It wasn't state owned it was owned by Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital Management, and operating under the name Finch Paper Holdings, acquired the privately held company Finch, Pruyn & Company, a local business that traced its roots back to 1865.
Following the model set by other paper companies in recent years that have sold off their vast holdings of timberland, the new owners decided to sell Finch, Pruyn’s 161,000 acres, offering the land to the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation group.
Additionally local property taxes that help support fire, police, and schools are not paid by NC. Thus the area is losing tax base off of each purchase
The conservancy will also continue to pay $1.1 million in local property taxes to the 31 towns in 6 counties where the land is situated.
but they can dictate what you can and can not do on YOUR land once you purchase it. Double standard????
Not if you agree to the contigencies when you purchase the land.