By State

Appraisers, Attorneys & Consultants by State

Listings with an asterisk (*) note an AYO-trained consultant

Alabama

Clark ~ Davis, P.C.

646 River Route, Magnolia Springs, AL 36555-9728
Phone: (251) 988-1010 | Fax: (251) 988-1011
Website: www.clarkappraisals.com
Clark~Davis, P.C. is an appraisal firm with experience appraising various types of property for conservation easements and charitable contributions. We have had successful experience with IRS audits of our appraisals. We have contacts in many geographical locations and are able to perform appraisals or review appraisals for compliance and thoroughness. Successfully defended Kiva Dunes v. Commissioner IRS.

DiPiazza, LaRocca, Heeter and Co, LLC

510 Office Park Drive, Suite 100, Birmingham, AL 35223
Phone: (205) 871-9973 | Fax: (205) 871-9973
Email: avl@dlhcpa.com
Website: www.dlhcpa.com
Contact: Anthony Vincent LaRocca

Sirote & Permutt, Inc.

2311 Highland Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35205
Phone: (205) 930-5274 | Fax: (205) 212-3894
Email: rlevitt@sirote.com
Website: www.sirote.com

California

Adler & Colvin

235 Montgomery, Suite 1220, San Francisco, CA 94104-3103
Phone: (415) 421-7555 | Fax: (415) 421-0712
Email: km@adlercolvin.com
Website: www.adlercolvin.com
Adler & Colvin is a small law firm specializing in the law of nonprofit organizations. We provide advice on federal and state tax-exemption and other legal issues affecting nonprofits. Our areas of practice include nonprofit corporate governance, transactions between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, lobbying and political activities, and charitable gift planning. We also assist clients with tax audits and help organizations identify issues before a regulatory audit occurs.

Amicus-Strategic Environmental Consulting

580 Second St
Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (510) 693-1241
Email: markus@amicusenv.com
Website: www.amicusenv.com

Amicus is proud to support the people and organizations working to conserve land for enjoyment as open space, recreation and habitat. Services for the conservation community range from due diligence to support of acquisitions and easements to environmental strategy and issue management for urban park projects; we understand the special challenges facing conservation professionals: modest budgets, time constraints, funding requirements, competition for resources. Call Amicus for all your due diligence and environmental project management needs.

Ann Taylor Schwing, Best Best & Kriefer LLP

400 Capitol Mall, Suite 1650, Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 325-4000 | Fax: (916) 325-4010
Email: ats@atschwing.com
Attorney and author of multiple legal treatises available to assist land trusts, governmental agencies, and landowners in drafting templates for conservation easements, specific conservation easements, and research, writing and editing of briefs and other documents relating to conservation easements and land trust operations.

Connectivity for Wildlife, LLC

10767 Citrus Drive, Moorpark, CA 93021-8732
Phone: (805) 469-3530 | Fax: (805) 469-3530
Email: patrickd@cfwildlife.com
Website: www.cfwildlife.com
The mission of Connectivity for Wildlife is to provide scientifically robust data used for land acquisition strategies, conservation, and habitat connectivity projects. CFW gathers data using a variety of wildlife survey methods and ground truthing techniques. CFW survey methods also assess the permeability of a landscape for wildlife.

Conservation Land Group, Inc

550 Montgomery St Ste 900, San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: (415) 391-3003 | Fax: (415) 391-2779

Conservation Partners

1604 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707-2109
Phone: (510) 528-7350 | Fax: (510) 526-3672
Website: www.conservationpartners.com
Conservation Partners offers an array of services to successfully complete land conservation transactions. We provide legal counsel to both land trusts and landowners throughout California. We specialize in conservation easements, federal land exchanges and land acquisitions. Our services include negotiating, drafting and closing conservation transactions, in addition to acting as consultants regarding organizational and policy matters and in providing professional training.

David Anderson, Attorney At Law

1119 State St, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2712
Phone: (805) 963-6503 | Fax: (805) 963-5988
Email: andhowbow@aol.com

Elizabeth Richardson

2294 Ronda Vista Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: (323) 661-1509
Email: elsema3@aol.com

Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley LLP

1221 Broadway Fl 21, Oakland, CA 94612-1823
Phone: (510) 451-3300 | Fax: (510) 451-1527
Email: bepstein@fablaw.com
Website: www.fablaw.com
We are a mid-sized California law firm representing land trusts and other nonprofit organizations in land conservation and other nonprofit-specific issues. We also represent nonprofits, land owners, businesses, individuals, and public entities in water rights, land use, environmental, real estate, corporate, tax, employment, trademark, litigation, gift and estate planning/trust administration issues.

Hammock, Arnold, Smith & Co

215 W. Figuero St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: (805) 966-0869
Fax: (805) 966-6352

McCarthy & Rubright, LLP

P.O. Box 190, Red Bluff, CA 96080
Phone: (530) 527-0213
Email: mrlaw1@sbcglobal.net
McCarthy & Rubright, LLP assists private land owners in all phases of conservation easement transactions. We provide counseling on the various easement options available to meet the landowner’s goals for the current and ensuing generations. We will assist in defining long-term goals and in identifying Land Trusts who can best manage and pursue these goals. McCarthy & Rubright, LLP will assist in negotiating, drafting and closing the transaction in a form that best protects and respects the land owner’s current uses and long-term goals for the land.

Roger Sternberg Forestry & Land Conservation

PO Box 1211
Mendocino, CA 95460
Phone: (707) 937-0776
Email: rsternberg@mcn.org

Scharffenberger Land Planning

523 17th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121
Phone: (415) 387-3077 | Fax: (415) 387-3077
Email: tscharf@pacbell.net
Tom Scharffenberger is a landscape architect and conservation planner who assists non-profit organizations and landowners with individual acquisition transactions, as well as the development of strategic conservation plans for entire regions. Conservation plans have been prepared for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, American Farmland Trust, The Nature Conservancy, the Great Valley Center and several California land trusts.

Sustain Environmental

3104 O Street, Ste 164
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: (916) 457-1856
Email: rebecca@sustaininc.com
Website: www.sustaininc.com
Sustain Environmental specializes in sustainable natural resource management, including biological resource assessments, adaptive management planning and monitoring, stewardship capacity building, and interpretive education. A full service environmental consulting firm, Sustain is a 100% women-owned small business working to sustain people, places and prosperity at the local and bioregional level.

Weintraub Genshlea Chediak

400 Capitol Mall, 11th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814-4434
Phone: (916) 558-6127 | Fax: (916) 446-1611
Email: smair@weintraub.com
Website: www.weintraub.com

*Western Conservation Associates, LLC

Primary contact: Jim Elias
4 Dorset Lane
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Phone: (415) 888-2282
Email: jelias@westernconservation.net
Website: www.westernconservation.net
Western Conservation Associates serves land trusts, community organizations, government agencies and private landowners. Western Conservation Associates' Principal Jim Elias has worked for and with land trusts for 20 years and is AYO-trained. Together with Associates, Jim coordinates fee and easement transactions; conducts site-specific and regional conservation evaluations; and provides organizational development assistance.

Colorado

Allan C. Beezley, P.C., Attorney at Law

1928 14th Street, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: (303) 440-5867 | Fax: (303) 539-6530
Email: allan@acbpc.com
Legal representation of national, statewide, and local conservation organizations and governmental agencies in land conservation matters. Services provided include general counsel to clients throughout the course of a project, drafting of contracts, conservation easements and complex documents, review of due diligence materials and coordination of closing. Since 1991, Allan and his paralegal Marie Vicek have been involved in over 1,300 land conservation transactions.

Conservation Impact

1792 Wynkoop St, Ste 307, Denver, CO 80202-1075
Phone: (303) 223-4886 | Fax: (303) 223-4886
Email: shelli@conservationimpact.com
Website: www.conservationimpact.com
Conservation Impact provides comprehensive organizational development consulting to nonprofit organizations and public agencies. Since 1996, Conservation Impact has worked with dozens of Land Trusts of all sizes across the country to take them to their next level of development. The staff brings significant expertise in stewardship, conservation sciences and nonprofit management. Our services are focused and highly customized for each client. Contact us for information about strategic planning and positioning, marketing, organizational development and resource development.

Conservation Law, PC

52 Meadowlark Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439
Phone: (803) 674-3709 | Fax: (803) 674-3715
Email: conservationlaw@msn.com
Website: www.conservationlaw.org
Contact: Jessica Jay, Conservation Attorney

Ducker, Montgomery Lewis & Bess, P.C.

1560 Broadway, Ste. 1400, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 228-2503 | Fax: (303) 861-4017
Email: mbeck@duckerlaw.com
Website: www.duckerlaw.com
Melinda Beck assists land trusts, government entities and private landowners with donations and acquisitions of conservation easements throughout the United States and internationally, including acquisitions utilizing local, state and federal funds. Melinda is also co-author and co-editor of Mineral Development and Land Conservation: A Handbook for Conservation Professionals.

Hunsperger & Weston, Ltd.

5889 Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Ste 404, Englewood, CO 80111
Phone: (303) 741-5918 | Fax: (303) 741-2111
Website: www.hwltd.net

Isaacson Rosenbaum, P.C.

633 17th St Ste 220, Denver, CO 80202-3661
Phone: (303) 292-5656 | Fax: (303) 292-3152
Email: bsilberstein@ir-law.com
Website: www.ir-law.com
Contact: William M. Silberstein
Conservation law attorneys representing the interests of land trusts, governmental agencies, organizations and landowners in conservation transactions, including: sales and donations of conservation easements and land, obtaining and maintaining 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, estate and tax planning, IRS audits, property taxation, dispute resolution and litigation, stewardship of conservation easements, and lobbying and legislation.

SunOne Solutions

1444 Wazee St, #310, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 500-5017 | Fax: (303) 500-5017
Email: info@sunonesolutions.com
Website: www.sunonesolutions.com
Contact: John Hodges
SunOne Solutions is a leader in developing agricultural, forestry and land management projects for carbon credit markets. To date, SunOne has successfully developed over 150 projects on over 2.2 million acres of land for over 3 million carbon “offset” credits. SuneOne was named the #1 carbon aggregator in North America.

Tax Credit Connection, Inc.

PO Box 6618, Longmont, CO 80501
Phone: (303) 827-5851
Fax: (303) 682-3275
Tax Credit Connection, Inc. matches buyers and sellers of Colorado, New Mexico and Georgia tax credits, helping to conserve each state’s natural treasures. We prepare all of the documentation needed to complete the credit transfer, doing everything we can to make the process as easy as possible for both landowners and buyers.

*Third Sector Innovations

730 Bunting Ave
Grand Junction, CO 81501
Phone: 970-241-1139
Email: thirdsec@earthlink.net
Website: www.thirdsectoronline.com

Connecticut

Ackerly Brown, LLP

782 Bantam Road, Bantam, CT 06750
Phone: (860) 567-0828 | Fax: (860) 567-5844
Email: mackerly@ackerlybrown.com
Website: www.ackerlybrown.com

Danosky & Associates

Mailing address: P.O. Box 396, Sherman, CT 06784
Physical address: 143 West Street 123A Building C, New Milford, CT 06776
Phone: (860) 799-6330 and (860) 799-6331
Email: danosky@att.net
Website: www.danosky.com
Danosky & Associates is an action-oriented, results-driven consulting firm focused on providing professional Development and Financial Services products for the not-for-profit organization looking to grow, build their base and achieve long-lasting results. Danosky & Associates has successfully guided diverse non-profit organizations, focusing on Board building, leadership development, strategic planning, fund-raising and tactical marketing -- increasing the organizations’ stature, position and financial support in the community. In recent work with land trusts, Danosky & Associates has guided strategic planning, increased fund-raising, facilitated land stewardship initiatives and acquisition criteria and assisted with development of Board policies. Danosky Financial Services offers professional financial management, operational analysis and planning through an integrated approach to help your organization accelerate growth, lower risk, address capacity and ensure compliance. President & Founder, Sharon J. Danosky, is a sought after presenter at conferences.

*The Mentor Company

131 Boardman Rd
East Haddam, CT 06423
Phone: (860) 873-3025
Email: jane.mentorco@gmail.com
Website: www.solutionmentor.com
Primary Contact: Jane Zirlis
An experienced management consultant, Jane guides organizations in strategic initiatives. An AYO-trained partner, she conducts assessments in the New England area. Leadership development, succession planning, consensus-building, and decision-making strategies are used to enhance Board effectiveness. Project management and process improvement expertise optimize process and limited resources. Harvard BA, NYU MBA. Life member of the East Haddam Land Trust, former Vice-President and President.

NE Computer Solutions, LLC

701 Cottage Grove Rd, Ste F10, Bloomfield, CT 06002-3073
Phone: (860) 243-9896 | Fax: (860) 243-9896
Email: bereza@necomputersolutions.com
Website: www.necomputersolutions.com

District of Columbia

Appraisal Institute (Appraiser)

122 C St NW, Ste 360, Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 298-5597
Website: www.appraisalinstitute.org
The Appraisal Institute is an international membership association of professional real estate appraisers, with more than 21,000 members and 99 chapters. The Appraisal Institute is the acknowledged worldwide leader in real estate appraisal education, research, publishing, and professional membership designation programs, currently conferring the MAI, SRA and SRPA designations.

Chiswell D. Langhorne, Jr.

1680 31st St NW, Washington, DC 20007-2924
Phone: (202) 471-4277 | Fax: (202) 471-4278
Email: langhorne@erols.com

Florida

Thomas Kay

PO Box 674
Mc Intosh, FL 32664
Phone: (813) 225-1988
Fax: (813) 225-1392
Email: tkay@jungandsisco.com
Website: www.jungandsisco.com

Georgia

Conservation Pays, LLC

6849 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd, Bldg, A-2, Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 770-671-1533 | Fax: 770-671-1347
Email: jskalski@largeandgilbert.com
Website: www.largeandgilbert.com
Contact: Mr. Joseph C. Skalski
Conservation Pays, LLC is the land conservation affiliate of Large & Gilbert CPAs. The company coordinates landowners, appraisers, land trusts and attorneys to make grants of conservation easements happen.

Conservation Tax Transfer, LLC

115 W Jefferson St.
Madison, GA 30650
Phone: 706-334-20073 | Fax: 877-542-1033
Email: kristina@taxtransferga.com
Website: www.taxtransferga.com
Carl, Karen, and Jody Barbour decided to bring their experience to Georgia’s new transferable tax credit. They formed Conservation Tax Transfer, LLC (CTT), a Georgia based company with an office in the small historic town of Madison, Georgia. Kristina Sorensen joined the team as Executive Director in November of 2011 and runs the day-to-day operations in Georgia. Elliott Davenport and Ric Felker joined the team in October 2012 as Credit Transfer Agents. They work closely with individuals, professionals, and corporations that are interested in purchasing conservation tax credits..

Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, LLP

PO Box 2707, Columbus, GA 31902-2707
Phone: 706-243-6237 | Fax: 706-243-5237
Email: ar@hatcherstubbs.com
Website: www.hatcherstubbs.com/
Contact: Mr. Alan F. Rothschild, Jr.

*Laurel Florio

PO Box 2116
Roswell, GA 30077
Phone: (770) 559-4025
Email: lflorio1@comcast.net
Laurel A. Florio is an attorney/consultant primarily working with land transactions, conservation easements and non-profit organizational/pre-accreditation procedures. She is a member of the Land Trust Alliance’s (“Alliance”) Faculty, speaks annually at the Alliance’s National Conference, and conducts seminars and training sessions, including Core Curriculum Courses for the Alliance and other entities, as well as acts as a consultant to the Alliance, land trusts, landowners, governmental and other non-profit organizations around the country regarding land transactional and organizational matters. Additionally, Laurel has been part of the Alliance Curriculum Team, as a reviewer for several core publications, such as Conservation Easement Stewardship, and the 2007 report on Amending Conservation Easements. She is also part of the land trust assessment team of Mayes|Wilson & Associates thereby completing many organizational assessments for land trusts in preparation for Accreditation.
Laurel is also a member of the Board of Directors, (Governance Chair) of the Equine Land Conservation Resource in Lexington, KY where she combines her passion for horsemanship with the protection of equine related lands around the country.

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

999 Peachtree Street, Suite 2300
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: (404) 853-8172
Email: info@sablaw.com
Website: www.sablaw.com

Hawaii

Law Offices of Gregory D. Hendrickson

PO Box 124
Kealakekua, HI 96750
Phone: (808) 217-7773
Fax: (808) 323-2371
Email: greg@ghendricksonlaw.com
Website: www.ghendricksonlaw.com
Advising both land owners and land trusts on conservation approaches for real property, Mr. Hendrickson negotiates transactions, analyzes income, gift, and estate tax consequences of complex transactions, and consults with governmental and private citizen stakeholders on achieving ecological goals and environmental values for managed landscapes.

Tom Pierce, Attorney At Law, LLC

PO Box 798, Makawao, HI 96768-0798
Phone: (808) 573-2428
Fax: (866) 776-6645
Email: tom@mauilandlaw.com
Website: www.mauilandlaw.com

Idaho

Law Office of C. Timothy Lindstrom, Esq.

P.O. Box 7622
Jackson, Wyoming 83002
Phone: (307) 201-1074
Fax: (307) 690-9755
Email: ctlesq@hotmail.com

Specializing in the law of conservation easements, conservation transactions and related state and federal tax law, including representation of land trusts and landowners throughout the United States. Tim is recognized as a national expert and has written and lectured extensively on these topics nationally. He is author of A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements available at www.amazon.com. He and his family have contributed conservation easements on farms in Michigan and Virginia.

Illinois

Law Offices of George Covington

500 North Western Ave, Suite 204, Lake Forest, IL 60045-1954
Phone: (847) 735-8764
Fax: (847) 735-8770
Contacts: George Covington, gcovington@sbcglobal.net and
Julia Magnus, juliamagnus@sbcglobal.net

Maine

Barb Welch Consulting

661 Eastside Road, Hancock, ME 04640
Phone: (207) 422-1005
Email: barb@barbwelch.com
Website: www.barbwelch.com

Caroline M. Pryor

459 Sound Drive, Mount Desert, ME 04660
Phone: (207) 288-0152
Email: carolinepryor1@gmail.com
Working with land trusts, other community organizations and landowners, I offer thirty years of land conservation and non-profit organizational experience. Guided Organizational Assessments, strategic planning, fundraising assistance, board development, project management and meeting facilitation are some of the services I provide.

Law Office of Jonathan Bockian

165 Irving St, Watertown, MA 02472-2706
Phone: (617) 926-7801 | Fax: (617) 926-7804
Email: jbockian@bockianlaw.com
Website: preservationlawdigest.com
The Law Office of Jonathan M. Bockian provides legal counsel in preservation of historic, natural and farm places and commercial real estate. One of the largest regional heritage organizations in the United States has been represented by our firm since 1985. Jon Bockian is a graduate of Harvard Law School with transactional experience ranging from the sophisticated to the simple. He also authors the blog, Preservation Law Digest.

Law Offices of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C.

75 Federal St, Suite 1100, Boston, MA 02110
Phone: (617) 357-4012 | Fax: (617) 357-1857
Website: www.stevesmall.com
Stephen Small, Esq. and Stefan Nagel, Esq., Of Counsel, constitute the legal professionals at the Law Office of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C. They are both nationally recognized authorities on the private protection of environmentally and culturally significant properties. While representing individual, corporate and family owners of important conservation lands and historic properties, Steve and Stefan also advise land trusts, government agencies and other non-profits on property and property interest acquisition, stewardship and related tax matters. In addition, they have conducted workshops and legal education programs in more than forty-six states and abroad.

Stocking & Crotteau, LLC

30 Berry Cove Rd
Lamoine, ME 04605
Phone: (207) 667-6009
Practice is limited to representing Maine conservation land trusts. Over 20 years experience representing land trusts.

William A. Bayreuther Grant Writing

138 South Road
Readfield, ME 04355
Phone: (207) 242-6029
Email: bill@billbayreuther.com
Website: www.billbayreuther.com
Certified Fund Raising Executive Bill Bayreuther's services to land trusts focus on foundation, government, and corporate prospect research and grant writing for operating, project, capacity-building, and capital support. Former Development Director for Maine's Downeast Lakes Land Trust, Bill offers free initial consultation and tailors comprehensive services to each client's needs

Young, Beck, LLP (Attorney)

1248 Tremont Rd, Seal Cove, ME 04674
Phone: (207) 244-7729 | Fax: (207) 244-7795
Email: youngbeckllp@gmail.com

Maryland

*Abernathy Consulting

7 Melbourne Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20901
Phone: (202) 257-8816
Email: jabernathy@verizon.net
Jim Abernathy has provided capacity building assistance to hundreds of environmental and conservation organizations throughout the United States in organizational assessments, strategic planning, leadership transitions, and strengthening coalitions and networks. He has conducted guided organizational assessments of organizational strength and land transaction capacity for land trusts.

Conservation Partners, LLC

1130 Crestview Drive, Annapolis, MD 21409
Phone (443) 758-5023
Website: www.conservationpartners.biz
Conservation Partners offers land planning, restoration, and stewardship services to the owners of conservation lands in Maryland. Our clients include individuals, land trusts, state and local land conservation programs, and conservation land buyers. We assemble a team of experts specific to each project's requirements, and can assist with obtaining project funding. Conservation Partners is a NRCS certified technical service provider.

Look At The Land, Inc.

19 Sunnyside Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 585-0393
Email: sjtassel@earthlink.net

*Nick Williams Consulting

4104 32nd St
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Phone: (443) 722-0528
Email: nwilliams550@gmail.com
Strategic conservation planning; conservation easements,land acquisitions; baseline documentation reports; land & easement stewardship, monitoring; forest stewardship/management plans; assess/inventory agricultural BMP's; wetland restoration; land trust capacity building; Assessing Your Organization (Land Trust Alliance); assistance towards accreditation; grants: seeking, proposals, evaluation; website and newsletter content and design.

*Samuel Stokes

8000 Park Crest Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 585-2270
Email: samstokes@aya.yale.edu
Sam Stokes assists land trusts with guided assessments and advises on natural areas protection, strategic planning, and effective management. He has over thirty years' experience working for the National Park Service, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and nonprofit conservation organizations.

Massachusetts

AgVisory, LLC

38 Cemetary Rd
Charlton, MA 01507
Phone: (413) 237-9196

*Land Conservation Associates

Elizabeth Wroblicka, Esq.
51 Olive Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone: (916) 712-4879
Email: elizabeth@landconservationassociates.com
Website: http://www.landconservationassociates.com/
As a former staff member of the Alliance, and of several land trusts, Elizabeth Wroblicka is uniquely qualified to represent land trusts and landowners in land conservation transactions. She understands how land trusts operate and has negotiated dozens of land conservation transactions with landowners in both Massachusetts and California. In addition to transactions, Attorney Wroblicka has experience in litigation, estate planning, charitable donations, and the legal responsibilities of nonprofit board members.

* Sage Advisors

49 Birchwood Lane
Lincoln, MA 01773
Phone: (406) 579-8259
Email | Website | No Fax
Sage Advisors provides strategy and program design services to support landscape scale conservation. We have 25 years of success conserving land, water, forest and habitat through efficient strategies that incorporate our real estate, finance and organizational expertise to create pragmatic solutions for organizations of all sizes.

Expertise: Landscape Conservation Strategy, Program Design and Evaluation, Policy Analysis, Land Planning, Conservation Easement Stewardship, Coalition Building, Financing, Board Development, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising.

Sullivan & Worcester

1 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109
Phone: 617-338-2422 | Fax: (617) 338-2880
Email: jedington@sandw.com
Website: www.sandw.com

Spatial Data Management Corp.

P.O. Box 95191, Newton, MA 02495-0191
Phone: (978) 618-4235
Email: mmayo@sdmgis.com
Website: www.sdmgis.com
SDMC provides GIS, mapping, and data management consulting services that meet the needs and budgets of large and small projects. SDMC can create parcel and aerial basemaps, streamline data management practices for land stewards, produce grant application attachments, and develop online map hosting to showcase your properties on the web.

Michigan

Big Paw Wildlife Conservancy

P.O. Box 541 , Harrisville, MI 48740
Phone: (989) 724-5089
Email: gregart@charter.net

Law Office of C. Timothy Lindstrom, Esq.

P.O. Box 7622
Jackson, Wyoming 83002
Phone: (307) 201-1074
Fax: (307) 690-9755
Email: ctlesq@hotmail.com
Specializing in the law of conservation easements, conservation transactions and related state and federal tax law, including representation of land trusts and landowners throughout the United States. Tim is recognized as a national expert and has written and lectured extensively on these topics nationally. He is author of A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements available at www.amazon.com. He and his family have contributed conservation easements on farms in Michigan and Virginia.

Mississippi

Barber & Mann, Inc.

453 Northpark Drive, Ridgeland, MS 39157
Phone: (601) 957-3443 | Fax: (601) 957-3424
Email: liz@barberandmann.com
Website: www.barberandmann.com

May & Company

110 Monument Place
Vicksburg, MS 39180
Phone: (601) 636-4762
Email: jparis@maycpa.com
Website: www.maycpa.com
CPA firm hired with several clients in mitigation banking and conservation easements.

Montana

Another Set of Eyes

Contact: Jon Haber
4501 Timberlane St
Missoula, MT 59802
Phone:(406) 214-1365
Email: jonhaber@anothersetofeyes.net
Website: www.anothersetofeyes.net

With experience in fish and wildlife conservation planning, conservation easements, Endangered Species Act compliance, public land laws, policy analysis, and city/county planning, I offer focused research and writing, critical document review, and analytical problem-solving to land trusts, landowners, government agencies, grantmakers and attorneys. I will provide adjunct staff work at negotiable rates.

Erickson Consulting

325 Keith Ave, Missoula, MT 59801
Phone: (406) 370-0454 | Fax: (406) 721-8278
Email: dle@bresnan.net
Website: www.westernopenlands.com
Erickson Consulting, Inc provides planning and analysis services to land trusts, including organizational assessments, accreditation preparation, and strategic planning. Donna Erickson has Alliance training in organizational development. With extensive landscape planning experience, Erickson also assists land trusts in creating strategic land conservation plans.

*Jane Ellen Hamilton, Attorney At Law

165 Ritzman Lane
Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: (406) 257-8535
Email: jehamiltonmt@gmail.com
Providing consulting and legal representation to land trusts for 22 years, including: guided organizational assessments; preparation for land trust accreditation; negotiation and drafting of conservation easements; and resolving conservation easement stewardship issues such as amendments and violations. Speaker bureau for landowners and continuing legal education for attorneys. Training for land trust personnel on all aspects of land conservation (senior faculty member for the Land Trust Alliance and author of Alliance curriculum books).

*Johnson Law Firm

305 S 4th E, Ste. 301, Missoula, MT 59801
Phone: (406) 721-2272
Email: sally.johnsonlawfirm@msn.com

Nevada

McDonald Carano Wilson LLP

Primary Contact: Debbie Leonard
100 West Libert St, 10th Fl
Reno, NV 89501
Phone: (775) 788-2000
Website: www.mcdonaldcarano.com
Attorney and Mediator Debbie Leonard provides legal representation and mediation services in the areas of real property, land use and water law. As an attorney licensed in California and Nevada, Debbie can assist with property transactions and water rights issues. As a mediator, she works with parties to resolve disputes.

New Hampshire

Lyme Timber Company

23 S Main St, 3rd Floor, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 643-3300 | Fax: (603) 643-0331
Website: www.lymetimber.com
Contact: Peter R. Stein

*Rowley & Associates, PC

6A Hills Avenue, Concord, NH 03301
Phone (603) 228-5400 | Fax (603) 226-3532
Email: admin@rowleyandassociates.com
Contact: Eric C. Rowley, CPA

New Jersey

Coughlin Duffy LLP

350 Mount Kemble Ave
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone:(973) 631-6030
Fax: (973) 267-6442
Email: jwyse@coughlinduffy.com
Website: www.coughlinduffy.com
We provide a full range of services to conservation organizations, private landowners, and governmental agencies engaged in open space, habitat, farmland and historic preservation, including acquisition and financing transactions, federal and state income and estate tax planning, conservation and historic preservation easements, easement enforcement actions and corporate operations and qualification.

James P. Wyse, Esq.

Coughlin Duffy LLP
350 Mount Kemble Ave, P.O. Box 1917, Morristown, NJ 07962-1917
Phone: (973) 267-0058 | Fax: (973) 267-6442
Email: jwyse@coughlinduffy.com
Website: www.coughlinduffy.com
We provide a full range of services to conservation organizations, private landowners, and governmental agencies engaged in open space, habitat, farmland and historic preservation, including acquisition and financing transactions, federal and state income and estate tax planning, conservation and historic preservation easements, easement enforcement actions and corporate operations and qualification.

Matrix New World Engineering, Inc.

26 Columbia Turnpike
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Phone: (302) 598-7553
Fax: (302) 824-7086
Email: lmalizzi@matrixneworld.com
Website: www.matrixneworld.com
Matrix New World Engineering, Inc. is a woman-owned environmental consulting and engineering firm with a focus on habitat restoration and site remediation. Our mission is to marry companies that need to do restoration with projects that require funding with the outcome being the betterment of the natural environment.

New Mexico

Woody Duncan, GIS

7 Duende, Santa Fe NM 87508
Phone: (505) 470-6120
Email: woodyduncangis@gmail.com
Website: www.woodyduncangis.com
Woody Duncan is a senior GIS consultant based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is responsible for ensuring timely, organized, predictable delivery of multiple, overlapping GIS conservation projects. Woody has over ten years of experience building on land conservation initiatives successes, managing national clients, strategic partnerships, applied GIS techniques and development of intellectual capital.

New York

Deb Balliet Consulting

64 Pershing Dr
Scotia, NY 12302
Phone: (859) 230-0980
Email: debballiet1@gmail.com
Deb Balliet Consulting (DBC) is a not-for-profit consultant practice specializing in helping organizations develop their fund-raising program and board of directors in order for the organization to thrive. DBC also provides fund-raising program audits and interim executive director services. Deb Balliet is a proven not-for profit consultant with 25+ year of fund-raising and executive leadership experience on which to draw.

*Innovative Resources Group

11 Round Table Road, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: 800-710-7760 | Mobile: (518) 225-4057
Email: beth@innovativeresourcesgroup.com
Website: www.innovativeresourcesgroup.com
Contact: Beth Hershenhart

Mark Pennington, LLC

841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (917) 546-0747
Email: mark@penningtonllc.com

New York Council of Nonprofits

272 Broadway
Albany, NY 12204
Phone: (518) 4349194 x115
Email: sweinrich@nycon.org
Website: www.nycon.org
NYcon is the state association of nonprofits providing a range of cost saving membership benefits, employee benefits and insurance products as well as training and technical assistance to our 3,200 members throughout New York state.

Rapport Meyers, LLP

20 Springbrook Park, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Phone: (845) 473-7766 | Fax: (845) 473-7790
Email: grodenhausen@rapportmeyers.com
Website: www.rapportmeyers.com
We are a Hudson Valley law firm serving clients from New York City to the North Country in environmental, land use, municipal and litigation law. We represent land trusts, donors and municipalities with conservation easement requirements in their land use laws. We are proud to be a member of the Land Trust Alliance.

Schwartzberg & Kenyon, PLLC

108 Main Street
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone: (845) 323-3787
Email: maryanne@schwartzbergkenyon.com
Schwartzberg & Kenyon, PLLC provides a broad range of services to land trusts and landowners interested in conserving their land. With over 40 years of combined experience representing and working with land trusts, landowners and government agencies, we have the experience and knowledge to effectively assist our clients in all aspects of transactional and not-for-profit legal, governance and organizational issues.

*Trailmarker Associates

PO Box 94
Keene Valley, NY 12943
Phone: (518) 576-2079
Email: hbjordan@trailmarker.org
Website: www.trailmarker.org
Henrietta Jordan, principal consultant, helps land trusts prepare for accreditation, complete organizational assessments and develop strategic action plans. She formerly served as the Land Trust Alliance’s Northeast policy and assessments manager and as review manager for the Land Trust Accreditation Commission and has worked with nonprofits for over 30 years.

North Carolina

Mayes | Wilson & Associates, LLC

17746 Caldwell Station Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078
Phone: (704) 655-8727 | Fax: (704) 453-1656
E-mail: sara@mayeswilsonassociates.com
Website: www.mayeswilsonassociates.com

MAYES|WILSON advises land trusts, nonprofit organizations, conservation and environmental groups, and conservation-minded individuals; helping clients focus their energy and resources to increase mission success. Services include organizational assessments, board evaluations, board and organizational development, and all aspects of planning—strategic, annual, transition, and succession. Specialty services for conservation organizations, agencies and landowners include conservation planning, assistance with conservation land transactions, land management, accreditation preparation, and stewardship.

Ohio

The Quantum Group LLC

5214 River Ridge Cir
Sylvania, OH 43560
Phone: (419) 340-8115
Email: kjoyce5214@gmail.com
Website: www.e-quantumgroup.com

Quantum Group is an organization/management consulting firm operated by Kevin Joyce, former executive director of Black Swamp Conservancy who has a law degree and a master’s in management. Services include strategic planning, organizational development, mergers, and legal counsel for land trusts.

Oregon

Conservation & Preservation Counsel, LLC

214 Trailside Loop, Eugene, OR 97405-3556
Phone: (541) 554-3665 | Fax: (541) 345-8298
Email: olmsted@landprotect.com
Website: www.landprotect.com
Contact: James Olmsted, Esq.
Conservation & Preservation Counsel (CPC) provides legal services to land trusts and landowners in land conservation transactions. CPC can assist clients in all phases of conservation transactions, from the initial agreement to escrow and closing. Services provided include purchase and sale agreement negotiation and negotiating and drafting conservation agreements. CPC provides legal services in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. CPC offers low costs wholesale prices for clients choosing bulk legal services on an annual basis.

FLO Data & GIS

2001 NW 19th Ave, Ste. 200
Portland OR 97209
Phone: (503) 501-5214
Fax: (971) 544-2140
Email: jaxelrod@flodatagis.com
Website: flodatagis.com
FLO provides a variety of GIS and database services to enhance land trusts daily operations and ongoing strategic planning efforts. Throughout the spatial planning process, we work closely with your organization to develop a pathway for incorporating GIS resources that will meet your needs, resources, skill level, and support your mission.

Wm. F. (Fritz) Paulus, Attorney at Law

1207 SW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: (503) 224-1773
Email: fritz@wfpauluslaw.com
Website: www.wfpauluslaw.com
Mr. Paulus is a lawyer who represents clients with land conservation matters in Oregon, including fee title acquisition, conservation and trail easements, in-stream flow agreements, and land-use actions. He is a former real estate negotiator with the Natural Areas Program at Metro and executive director of the Oregon Water Trust.

Mason, Bruce & Girard (Appraiser)

707 SW Washington St, Ste 1300, Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 224-3445 | Fax: (503) 224-6524
Website: www.masonbruce.com
Mason, Bruce & Girard has been providing natural resource consulting services since 1921. Our goal in every project is to develop innovative, effective solutions for our clients' natural resource concerns. Services of interest to land trusts include fee and conservation easement appraisals, acquisition due diligence, resource assessment and management planning.

Solid Ground Consulting Group

516 SE Morrison St #400
Portland, OR 97214
Phone: (503) 249-0000
Email: info@solidgroundconsulting.com
Website: http://www.solidgroundconsulting.com

Trout Mountain Forestry

1800 NW Upshur Street, Suite 201, Portland, OR 97209
Phone: (541) 602-2180 | Fax: (503) 517-9990
Email: mark@troutmountain.com
Website: www.troutmountain.com
Contact: Mark Miller
Trout Mountain Forestry specializes in long-term, conservation-based forest management for family forest owners, land trusts, organizations and municipal governments throughout western Oregon and Washington. We assist with conservation assessment, easement development, appraisal, mapping, and baseline reporting, as well as stewardship planning, restoration, and management for working forestlands. TMF is an FSC certified resource manager and a NRCS certified technical service provider.

Pennsylvania

George H. Elser, Attorney at Law

130 W Lancaster Ave , Suite 203, Wayne, PA 19087
Phone: (610) 964-9627 | Fax: (610) 964-9769
Email: gelserlaw@aol.com

Pregmon Law Offices

350 Sentry Parkway, Building 640 Suite 102, Blue Bell, PA 19422
Website: www.pregmonlaw.com

Snyder Appraisal Associates

3004 Hempland Rd
Suite 3
Lancaster, PA 17601
Phone: (717) 435-9560
Email: greg@snyderassociates.us
Website: www.snyderassociates.us
Real estate appraisal company that specializes in agricultural and agri-business properties. Our company has done over 200 conservation easement appraisals in the 11 years we have been in business.

Rhode Island

Anne W. Garnett

46 Cole Street, Jamestown, RI 02835
Phone: (401) 423-3547 | Fax: (401) 423-3547
Email: awgarnett@cox.net

Texas

Armstrong Law

702 San Antonio St
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 277-5454
Email: susan@law-armstrong.com
Website: www.law-armstrong.com
Armstrong Law focuses on conservation law as well as estate planning for rural landowners. Prior to starting her own practice, Susan Armstrong was Executive Director of the Texas Land Trust Council, the umbrella organization of all land trusts in Texas. She has also served Executive Director of Connemara Conservancy Foundation, the regional land trust of North Texas, including Dallas/Fort Worth. Susan has also worked at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP as well as an Assistant Attorney General in the Natural Resources Division.

Carolyn Vogel

6142 Jumano Ln, TX 78749
Phone: (512) 301-1635
Email: carolyn@texasconservationconnection.com

Diane Dickson Realty

1907 Wildwood Lane, Richmond, TX 77406-1346
Phone: (281) 794-5263 | Fax: (281) 239-8833
Email: diane01@aol.com
Land brokerage in the State of Texas, specializing in equestrian properties. We bridge the gap for land owners to land trusts by providing information and services which offer viable solutions and options in the vast array of land trusts available and the available conservation easement options.

Frontier GIS

11516 Leapwood Pl
Austin, TX 78759
Phone: (512) 757-1484
Email | Website
Frontier GIS offers a unique opportunity for land trusts to create affordable professional maps using our custom data creation tool and account services. We also offer complete baseline documentation with our certified wildlife biologists. Flexible expertise and creative problem solving are our hallmarks.

Law Office of Burgess Jackson

1206 W St. Johns Ave, Austin, TX 78757
Phone: (512) 699-9012 | Fax: (512) 454-2250
Email: burgess@conservationlaw.net

Mayes | Wilson & Associates, LLC

P.O. Box 946, San Marcos, TX 78607
Phone: (414) 807-4319
E-mail: sara@mayeswilsonassociates.com
Website: www.mayeswilsonassociates.comMAYES|WILSON advises land trusts, nonprofit organizations, conservation and environmental groups, and conservation-minded individuals; helping clients focus their energy and resources to increase mission success. Services include organizational assessments, board evaluations, board and organizational development, and all aspects of planning—strategic, annual, transition, and succession. Specialty services for conservation organizations, agencies and landowners include conservation planning, assistance with conservation land transactions, land management, accreditation preparation, and stewardship.

*SONRi Corp

26 Cascade Caverns Road, Boerne, TX 78015-8308
Phone: (210) 387-8628
Email: steve.bonner@sonricorp.com
Website: www.sonricorp.com
SONRI is dedicated to helping people talk about the balance between economic development, environmental impact, and social responsibility. We have helped dozens of land trusts develop their organizational capabilities and capacity for conservation, and serve as consultants to key policy makers in Washington and around the nation. From all-volunteer nonprofits to the Department of Defense, SONRI leads the way in cutting-edge conservation for a more sustainable future.

Utah

Nancy A. McLaughlin, Professor of Law, University of Utah, College of Law

332 South 1400 East, Rm. 101, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0730
Phone: (801) 581-5944 | Fax: (801) 581-6897
Email: mclaughlinn@law.utah.edu

Vermont

Law Office of Annette Lorraine, PLC / Land As Legacy Consulting

PO Box 1466
Montpelier, VT 05601
Phone: (802) 262-6400
Fax: (802) 262-4305
Email: rainlaw@sover.net
Website: www.landaslegacy.com
Annette Lorraine is a real estate attorney actively practicing in Vermont, and a land conservation consultant nationwide. She has direct experience in land trust transactional and stewardship work as well as degrees in environmental law and organizational behavior. These result in comprehensive, practical and efficient services.

Virginia

Conservation Partners, LLC

PO Box 152, 13 Court House Square, Lexington, VA 24450
Phone (540) 464-1899
Website: www.conservationpartnersllc.com
Conservation partners consults with Virginia landowners and their professional advisors throughout the process of donating conservation easements and preparing and registering high-quality Virginia land preservation tax credits. In most cases, after an easement donor's credits are registered we help the donor market and sell his or her credit to individuals and businesses who are enthusiastic about purchasing high-quality credits and supporting land conservation in Virginia.

Conservation Service Company, LLC

20 W Chapman St, Alexandria, VA 22301-2502
Phone: (703) 683-0506 | Fax: (703) 683-4940
Email: jean@hockers.com
Contact: Jean W. Hocker

Georgia H. Herbert, PC

PO Box 21, 6537 Main St, The Plains, VA 20198-0021
Phone: (540) 253-5855 | Fax: (540) 253-5209

Law Office of C. Timothy Lindstrom, Esq.

P.O. Box 7622
Jackson, Wyoming 83002
Phone: (307) 201-1074
Fax: (307) 690-9755
Email: ctlesq@hotmail.com
Specializing in the law of conservation easements, conservation transactions and related state and federal tax law, including representation of land trusts and landowners throughout the United States. Tim is recognized as a national expert and has written and lectured extensively on these topics nationally. He is author of A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements available at www.amazon.com. He and his family have contributed conservation easements on farms in Michigan and Virginia.

Lee Stephens Law, PLC

4507 Irvington Road, #300
Irvington, VA 22480
Phone: (804) 480-4090
Email: lee@leestephenslaw.com
Website: www.conservationeasementlawyer.com
We help land owners protect their property forever and realize tax benefits. The most complex transactions in Virginia we handle. Conservation easements, purchases of development rights, bargain sales, and fee gifts -- we advise clients on all types of charitable donations of land, and civil or tax controversies that may arise.

Lenhart Obenshain

PO Box 1287
Harrisonburg, VA 22803
Phone: (540) 437-3118
Email: lah@lolawfirm.com
Lenhart Obenshain PC represents easement holders and landowners in gift, bargain-sale and sale of conservation easements, and has helped preserve thousands of acres of land across Virginia. Its team leader, Lisa Hawkins, has educated diverse audiences on conservation, ranging from land trusts to farmers, governmental officials and even other attorneys.

McCallum & Kudravetz

250 E High St, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: (434) 293-8191 | Fax: (434) 296-9641

*Megan Gallagher, Conservation Consulting

5618 Rock Hill Mill Rd, The Plains, VA 20198
Phone: (540) 253-5162
Email: meganinc@earthlink.net
Website: www.meganincva.com
Megan Gallagher provides strategic planning for effective initiatives in land use, land protection and compatible economic development; develops advocacy campaigns to protect natural and historic resources; guides conservation board members and staff through program audits, organizational development and other steps to improve performance and gain tax exempt status or land trust accreditation; and creates messages, publications and other public outreach tools to achieve positive change in public policy.

Washington

Douglas Mason, Attorney at Law

2404 35th Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
Phone: (360) 379-9579 | Fax: (360) 387-1517
Email: seahorse@olympus.net
Website: www.saveland.org

FLO Data & GIS

Katharine Bill

27 W Fawn Creek Rd, Winthrop, WA 98862
Phone: (509) 996-3156
Email: katharine.bill@gmail.com
Environmental consultant specializing in organizational mentoring, strategic planning, AYO Assessments, and conservation prioritization.

Thomas F. Haensly, Attorney At Law

144 Railroad Ave, Ste 217, Edmonds, WA 98020
Phone: (425) 775-4803 | Fax: (425) 775-9839
Email: thaensly@mns.com
Contact: Thomas F. Haensly, Esq
Tom advises clients on real estate and estate planning, including land conservation, entities, and charitable contributions. He received his law degree from Stanford and has a M.S. in wildlife ecology. He is a frequent speaker on land conservation topics. He co-authored “Conservation Easements” in the Washington Real Property Deskbook.

West Virginia

West Virginia College of Law

PO Box 6130
Morgantown, WV 26506
Phone: (304) 293-8840
Email: nathan.fetty@mail.wvu.edu
Website: www.law.wvu.edu
Providing pro bono transactional legal services to land trusts and land owners in West Virginia on matters of land and water conservation.

Wisconsin

*The BAM Team, LLC

One Odana Court
Madison, WI 53719
Phone: 608-256-1003
Email: mckeever@gmmattorneys.com

*Development for Conservation LLC

608 West Dean Ave, Madison, WI 53716
Phone: (608) 239-5006
Email: fundraisinghelp@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.developmentforconservation.wordpress.com
D4C assists conservation organizations raising money from individual donors by improving renewal, cultivation, and major gift systems. David Allen brings 25 years experience to the practice, including thirteen with TNC. He is a skilled seminar presenter, particularly in major gift fundraising. Specialties include Development Audits, Board training, and campaigns.

Graff & Associates

518 Kettle Moraine Drive South, Slinger, WI 53086
Phone: (262) 644-9600
Email: graffinc@charter.net

*Growth Strategies, Inc.

Primary Contact: Valerie Hogan
1500 County Road C
Star Prairie, WI 54026-5301
Phone:715-248-4849
Email: valerie@growthstrategies.org
Website: www.growthstrategies.org
Growth Strategies, Inc. helps organizations grow and succeed. Consulting services include: organizational assessments, strategic planning, implementation of Land Trust Standards and Practices, outcome measurement, process improvement and procedural documentation. Valerie Hogan, president, has more than 20 years of experience facilitating the development of innovative strategies, achievable goals, measurable objectives, and action plans that include accountability. In essence, plans that lead to success!

*Mayes | Wilson & Associates, LLC

3323 North Summit Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: (414) 807-4319 | Fax: (414) 967-5860
Email: sara@mayeswilsonassociates.com
}Website: www.mayeswilsonassociates.com
MAYES|WILSON advises land trusts, nonprofit organizations, conservation and environmental groups, and conservation-minded individuals; helping clients focus their energy and resources to increase mission success. Services include organizational assessments, board evaluations, board and organizational development, and all aspects of planning—strategic, annual, transition, and succession. Specialty services for conservation organizations, agencies and landowners include conservation planning, assistance with conservation land transactions, land management, accreditation preparation, and stewardship.

PARE Consultants

148 E Main St, Ste. C
Reedsburg, WI 53959
Phone: (608) 768-2665
Website: www.wisconsinlandvalue.com
We provide appraisals, reviews, baselines and surveys. Every document we prepare is thoughtfully detailed. Appraisal reviews provide valuable insight to reduce your risk in the event of an IRS audit. With our broad range of services, we can provide nearly everything you need to help protect land you love.

Wyoming

Conservation Consulting

4445 Moose Wilson Rd, Wilson, WY 83014
Phone: (307) 733-8673 | Fax: (307) 733-3107
Contact: Story Clark
Email: storyclark@mac.com