The Georgia Land Conservation Council adopted rules 305-1-.01 through 305-1-.06, creating the Georgia Land Conservation Program. The purpose of the program is to promote partnerships for the conservation of land resources that are identified by cities or counties as locally valuable or identified by the Department of Natural Resources as having statewide significance, as well as to promote alternative land conservation funding options in cooperation with private, non-profit, and tax exempt organizations, which will augment currently available local, state, and federal funding. http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=GEORGIA_LAND_CONSERVATION_COUNCIL/GEORGIA_LAND_CONSERVATION_PROGRAM/index.html&d=1.