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Included below are links to
useful articles, Web sites, and other materials relevant
to building effective stewardship programs. They are provided
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Interesting Articles and Reports:
The Nature Conservancy established a Conservation Easement
Working Group in 2003 to “frame questions about the future use
of easements and to propose actions to further ensure the appropriate, consistent,
ethical and effective use” of easements by the Conservancy. The Working
Group issued an “essential reading” Report which
may be found here:
The
Working Group "essential reading"
Steven Small is a nationally-recognized
expert on private land protection; especially concerning
the tricky issues associated with federal tax incentives.
Steve provides access to his always-instructive articles
at his Web site: http://www.stevesmall.com/,
and further shares an excellent “Conservation
Easement Project Checklist” which can
be found here: http://www.stevesmall.com/tls/index.html
Jeff Pidot, Chief of the Natural Resources
Division of the Maine Attorney General’s Office and
a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
authored an excellent report examining the need for reform
in private land conservation. The Report – Reinventing Conservation
Easements: A Critical Examination
and Ideas for Reform – was published
by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and may be obtained
here:
http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=1051
Nancy McLaughlin is a Professor of Law
at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
Nancy has presented at numerous land conservation events
and gatherings, and has published a number of exceptional
articles on private land conservation and, lucky for us,
graciously provides those articles via her Web site at:
http://www.law.utah.edu/faculty/bios/mclaughlinn.html
Examples of Easement Language:
The American Farmland Trust provides
examples of Agricultural Easement Language: American
Farmland Trust Easement Language (PDF)
The Maryland Environmental Trust and Maryland
Department of Natural Resources provide a model
Deed of Conservation Easement: Deed of Conservation Easement
*The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality provides
a sample Agreement for Conservation Easement: Sample
Agreement (PDF).
*The Little Traverse Conservancy provides
a Model Michigan Conservation Easement: Michigan
Model Easement.
*Please note that these are different
documents.
The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association is currently
developing a series of Pennsylvania model conservation
easement templates: Conservation Easement Templates |
