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Conservation Easements - How Flexible Is Too Flexible?

To ensure the continued conservation of natural resources and habitats, it is important to ensure that easements are not simply undone by successors to the original parties after the tax benefits have been realized.& ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements--How-Flexible-Is-Too-Flexible/3162/

 

Conservation Easements – The Latest Tool in the Protection of Lands and Landscapes in the Mississippi Delta

By: Laurel A. Florio, J.D.
Conservation easements have been utilized as a primary tool for land protection in the United States for approximately thirty years. The movement started in the Northeastern part of the country and has slowly, but steadily, made its way to the Southeast; the Mississippi Alluvial Valley to be specific.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements--The-Latest-Tool-in-the-Protection-of-Lands-and-Landscapes-in-the-Mississippi-Delta/115/

 

Reconciling Mineral Rights and Conservation Easements

By: Blair Fitzsimons
Answers on subsurface mining below conservation easements.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Reconciling-Mineral-Rights-and-Conservation-Easements/256/

 

Smallholder agroforestry plots may boost tree conservation - Report

By: Barbara Fraser
When natural forests are threatened by deforestation or climate change, the best hope for the survival of certain at risk tree species may be to include them in agroforestry plots managed by small farmers, according to new research.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Smallholder-agroforestry-plots-may-boost-tree-conservation--Report/1453/

 

Crop Insurance and Conservation Compliance

By: Daryll E. Ray; Harwood D. Schaffer
The failed Senate bill reattached conservation compliance to the crop/revenue insurance program that was subsidized by the Federal Government.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Crop-Insurance-and-Conservation-Compliance/907/

 

Iowa's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy

By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
Excerpts from Iowa's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) applicable to Private Landowners.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Iowas-Comprehensive-Wildlife-Conservation-Strategy-/195/

 

A fierce, expensive fight erupts over conservation easements

By: Timothy Cama, E&E News reporter
An ongoing fight over tax breaks for conserving privately owned land — and accusations that some people are using them as a tax shelter — is spurring an expensive lobbying battle involving landowners and conservationists.
https://www.landcan.org/article/A-fierce-expensive-fight-erupts-over-conservation-easements/3524/

 

Soil and Water Conservation Districts

By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
What is a Soil and Water Conservation District? Across the United States, nearly 3,000 conservation districts - almost one in every county - are helping local people to conserve land, water, forests, wildlife and related natural resources.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Soil-and-Water-Conservation-Districts/112/

 

Unique Partnership Promotes Conservation through Ranching

By: Jeff Eisenberg
A group of ranching and conservation organizations have formed a broad-based coalition to enhance ranching practices that consider important conservation issues throughout the West.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Unique-Partnership-Promotes-Conservation-through-Ranching/204/

 

Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (Wildlife Action Plan)

Excerpts from Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) applicable to Private Landowners.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Mississippis-Comprehensive-Wildlife-Conservation-Strategy-Wildlife-Action-Plan/157/

 

Hunters - A Force for Conservation

By: Breana Behrens
Hunting seasons are starting to open, making this a great time to commemorate the important role that hunters play in habitat conservation.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Hunters--A-Force-for-Conservation/1646/

 

Frameworks for Conservation Action Sagebrush and Great Plains

By: Working Lands for Wildlife
Learn about the USDA-NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife's approach to conservation in the sagebrush-steppe and Great Plains Grasslands in this public presentation.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Frameworks-for-Conservation-Action-Sagebrush-and-Great-Plains/3773/

 

Mitigation and Conservation Banking

By: K Gregg Elliott
To many landowners a threatened or endangered (T&E) species on their property is anathema because it can herald all kinds of state and federal limitations on use of their property.& ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/Mitigation-and-Conservation-Banking/71/

 

Conservation helps landowners ‘drought proof’ farms, ranches

By: USDA NRCS

https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-helps-landowners-drought-proof-farms-ranches/1107/

 

Uniform Conservation Easement Act Summary

By: Uniform Law Commission
Although traditional uses of land for industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural purposes have continued, conservation and historic preservation have become important as well.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Uniform-Conservation-Easement-Act-Summary/2898/

 

Cost-effective Conservation Practices

By: Michelle Wood
This article includes ideas on how to improve your operation environmentally and economically.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Costeffective-Conservation-Practices/969/

 

Government, company agreementwill help farmers improve conservation practices

By: Jennifer Carrico

https://www.landcan.org/article/Government-company-agreementwill-help-farmers-improve-conservation-practices/951/

 

Conservation Easements

By: Christopher B. Johnson
One tool for estate planners is the conservation easement, by which a landowner voluntarily restricts his or her land from being developed, restricts the amount of development or protects existing features, like a building facade with historic value.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements/223/

 

Can I Really Preserve My Land and Make Money?

By: Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Conservation easement income tax credits are a land preservation tool available to help Colorado landowners preserve their working farms and ranches and protect wildlife habitat and scenic views.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Can-I-Really-Preserve-My-Land-and-Make-Money/2255/

 

Indiana Monarch Conservation Plan

By: Indiana Wildlife Federation
Indiana’s involvement in the development of the Mid-America Monarch Conservation Strategy prompted the planning of an Indiana Monarch Conservation Summit, held in September 2017, to organize over 40 Hoosier conservation partners with an interest in monarch butterfly conservation and habitat restoration, and kickstart a collaborative effort to draft the Indiana Monarch Conservation Plan.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Indiana-Monarch-Conservation-Plan/3717/