Conserving Oak Harbor’s Fakkema Farm, 56 acres near Dugualla Lake, and 30 acres of farmland along Lone Lake’s south shoreline, are among the projects on which the public can weigh in at an upcoming meeting.

The citizens advisory board of the county’s Conservation Futures Fund meets 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21 to take public comment on this year’s applications to fund proposed projects.

The meeting will be held in the commissioners hearing room at 1 N.E. 6th St., in Coupeville. The board consists of nine citizens appointed by the Board of Island County Commissioners to evaluate and make recommendations on project applications for funding.

The applicants will make presentations about their projects and answer questions from the board and county staff. County staff will make presentations about their review of the projects.

The advisory board will also take public comment about the proposed projects.

After all presentations and comments, the board will discuss, score and rank the proposed project applications and prepare a recommendation to the county commissioners.

Five projects are set to be presented at the meeting.

First, the Whidbey Camano Land Trust is seeking $500,000 this year, and another $500,000 next year, to buy a conservation easement on Fakkema Farm. The 377-acre property stretches from Oak Harbor’s city limits to Swan Lake. The easement would protect 300 acres. An additional $3 million toward the easement would come from the U.S. Navy and from the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

The land trust is also asking for $30,000 to keep open for agricultural and open-space use two properties, totaling 56 acres, on the north side of Dugualla Lake, northeast of Oak Harbor. The land includes or is adjacent to working farmland, a freshwater lake and critically important habitat. The Navy may contribute toward the purchase because it wants to remove development rights to the area, which lies just east of a major runway at Ault Field.

Another $165,000 is being sought to protect from development 30 acres of productive farmland along Lone Lake’s south shoreline. The properties are an important north-south corridor between Lone Lake and Deer Lagoon, land trust officials said in the organization’s application.

The Island County Parks and Recreation Department has asked for $85,000 to protect 4.8 acres adjacent to the Island County Parks property of Camano Ridge, on Camano Island. The land would be used to build a parking lot for park users.

Finally, the county’s noxious weed control board wants $37,900 for suppressing weeds in 2016 and 2017 at Camano Island’s Iverson Preserve. Weeds to be controlled on the property, which was bought in 1999 with Conservation Futures Fund money, include Scotch broom, Canadian thistle, bull thistle and poison hemlock.