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A Guide to Preserving Agricultural Lands in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Chesapeake Bay Foundation A primer on the benefits of farmland preservation and a comprehensive list of available tools.
Active Living & Social Equity: Creating Healthy Communities...
International City/County Management Association This guide includes: an introduction to the connections between active living and social equity; strategies for promoting active living and social equity in key issue areas, such as walkability and pedestrian safety, bicycling, open space, land use, transportation infrastructure, economic development, school-based strategies, and nutrition access; case studies of successful local initiatives from around the country; and implementation strategies, such as funding, regional collaboration, engaging partners, and promoting awareness of active living and social equity.
Conservation Capital: Sources of Private Funding for Land Conservation
Ann Ingerson The Wilderness Society The guide covers familiar strategies, including bargain sales and private philanthropy, and it explains novel approaches, such as tapping new-markets tax credits and forming partnerships with a new generation of corporations that own forest lands. Throughout, Ingerson shows how these tools can make land protection both more affordable and more effective in an era of shrinking public dollars for conservation.
Conservation Easements
William M. Silberstein, Esq. & Melinda Beck, Esq. A short article discussing the basic concepts of the conservation easement.
Peggy Schear & Thomas W. Blaine Ohio State University
Coordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth & Curbing Sprawl
Thomas L. Daniels The purchase of development rights to farmland and open space has recently gained in popularity as a growth management tool. A purchase of development rights program pays the landowner for the unearned increment in exchange for strong deed restrictions, limiting the use of the property. On the other hand, land value taxation, a modification of Henry George's Single Tax, would tax land more heavily than improvements, thus encouraging the development of land. While land value taxation and the purchase of development rights appear to be opposing fiscal policies, they could be employed together as part of a regional planning strategy to encourage in-fill development within and near cities and to curb sprawl by retaining farm, forest, and ranch lands.
Ensuring Sustainable Forestry
Robert T. Perschel Forest Guild Through Working Forest Conservation Easements in the Northeast....This report includes a survey of three working forest easements and evaluates how well each easement and its related documents ensures sustainable forestry.
Land Protection Options, Revised 2nd Edition
Laurie Allmann Nature Conservancy, Minnesota Dept of Nat'l Resources, Trust for Public Land & Minnesota Land Trust In-depth introduction to tools, programs, partners and other resources for Minnesota landowners who want to preserve their land. Explains options such as easements, deed restrictions, and mutual covenants in lay terms. Includes landowner profiles, a decision-making checklist, and tax and land management considerations. The Nature Conservancy, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, The Trust for Public Land, and The Minnesota Land Trust
LTA Fact Sheet - Co-holding Conservation Easement
Land Trust Alliance This document is one of a series of fact sheets and reference materials produced by the Land Trust Alliance. Please contact us for additional information or to order materials.
LTA Fact Sheet: Conservation Buyer Transactions
Land Trust Alliance This document is one of a series of fact sheets and reference materials produced by the Land Trust Alliance. Please contact us for additional information or to order materials.
Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program
Pennsylvania Code Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Reinventing Conservation Easements: A Critical Examination and Ideas for R
Jeff Pidot Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Part One of this report provides an introduction to some of the issues arising from conservation easements, as foretold at the time of the enactment of the federal laws that granted them tax subsidies. Part One also describes the reasons why the public has a stake in conservation easements and in their content and governance. Part Two provides a Primer on Land Trusts and Conservation Easements, including defining terms, providing historical context and reporting current trends and a preview of the future problems that they present. Part Three specifically discusses issues emanating from conservation easements and evaluates a number of alternative ways to resolve them.
Sara Dekok Gathering Waters Conservancy The structure of this document is meant to act as a manual for site conservation planning for Wisconsin’s land trust community. The manual is broken down into five distinct sections, each of which are designed to help guide the reader through the process of creating a site conservation plan. The sections are as follows: This manual created for Gathering Waters Conservancy in 2006 by Sara DeKok, Master’s Candidate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, and Gathering Waters' Member Relations Director.
The Conservation Easement: A Flexible Tool for Preserving Family Lands
Natural Lands Trust 4 pages.
Using Conservation Easements to Preserve Open Space: A Guide for PA
Debra Wolf Goldstein, Esq. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Heritage Conservancy 43 pages.
Wetlands Reserve Program Fact Sheet
National Resources Conservation Service (USDA)
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