The Greene County Board of Supervisors met Monday in regular session.

During reports, County Environmental Administrator Chuck Wenthold gave an update on the Beaver Creek Watershed Management Authority. He said they are applying for a grant to create more wetland areas. He also mentioned that there are about 11 new landowner participants who have signed up for their Soil Health Project, which is installing conservation practices along the creek.

County Veterans Affairs Director Michael Bierl mentioned that the weeks leading up to 9/11 is an initiative called “Project Green Light” as an awareness campaign about the attack on 9/11.

The Board then approved a letter accepting a Wallace Teagarden bequest of 60 acres of land in Junction Township. County Attorney Thomas Laehn told the Board they could accept the bequest of the land that is east of Spring Lake Park if they agreed to three conditions. Those included requiring the land to be managed by the county conservation board, designate the area as the “Teagarden Wildlife Refuge” and not allow any hunting or fishing on the property. The Board agreed with those conditions. 

Laehn said they are also in negotiations about exchanging acres of the property for acres to the south that has a land bridge so that people could access the land-locked property, with the other route via gaining an easement that the county is entitled to as per state code. The Supervisors and the conservation board were comfortable continuing those discussions.