Conservation Easements

Buy Now! Download	Amending Conservation Easements Report Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2007 Org Member Price: $13.50 \| Download Free! Regular Price: $16.75 \| Download $10.00 This report presents an analysis of months of research and dialogue among leading attorneys, practitioners and academics on the issues of how, when and if conservation easements should be amended.
Buy Now!	The Conservation Easement Handbook, 2nd ed Author: Elizabeth Byers and Karin Marchetti Ponte, 2005 Org Member price: $39.95 \| Non-member price: $49.95 Essential for all who work with easements. This volume includes information on IRS criteria for tax-deductible gifts, negotiation and acquisition, baseline data, monitoring and enforcement, back-up grantees, and model conservation and historic easements.
Buy Now!	Guide to Equestrian-Friendly Conservation Easements, Revised Edition Author: Carolyn L. Orr, Ph.D., Editor, 2008 Org Member Price: $45.00 \| Regular Price: $54.00 The Guide has been developed to assist landowners and land trusts who desire to create conservation easements that permit various equestrian-related activities.
Buy Now!	Erler's Land Steward Org Member price: $99.00 \| Non-member price: $199.00 Erler's LandSteward is a browser-interfaced database program that allows land conservation organizations to better manage the complex information needed to ensure effective stewardship and permanent protection of conserved land.
Buy Now!	Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements, 3rd supplement Author: Stephen J. Small, 2001 Org Member price: $20.00 \| Non-member price: $26.00 Interprets the important Tax Court cases and IRS Letter Rulings since 1996, and complements The Federal Tax Law volume.
Buy Now!	Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements, 4th ed Author: Stephen J. Small, 1997 Org Member price: $69.00 \| Non-member price: $95.00 This authoritative volume interprets the IRS final regulations on gifts of conservation easements and discusses related income and estate tax considerations.
Buy Now!	How Strong Are Our Defenses Author: Brenda Lind, 2005 Org Member price: $12.00 \| Non-member price: $15.00 The report assesses the easement stewardship practices of large, staffed land trusts in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont as well as the practices of all-volunteer land trusts and public agencies. In total, 15 land trusts were surveyed as well as the public easement-holding agency in each state.
Buy Now!	Land Trust Standards and Practices Guidebook, Vol 1 & 2 Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2006 Org Member price: $49.95 \| Non-member price: $59.95 New and revised for 2006. This 2-volume set has all the information you need to implement the revised standards and practices, with new text and updated and new sample documents. Every land trust should own this.
Buy Now!	Living Green: Conservation Easements (DVD) Author: Mark Hostetler, 2005 Org Member price: $11.00 \| Non-member price: $13.75 Viewers learn about how conservation easements work and how a farmer/landowner can establish them on his or her property. Features farmers who have partnered with the Conservation Trust of Florida and the Red Hills Conservation Program to establish conservation easements.
Buy Now!	Protecting Surface Water Quality with Conservation Easements Author: Brenda Lind, 1995 Org Member price: $16.00 \| Non-member price: $20.00 Prepared with the advice of experienced easement practitioners from land trusts across the country, this guide includes examples from successful easement programs and samples of specific easement language that can be used to address a range of water resource protection goals and situations.
Buy Now!	Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements Past, Present, and Future Author: Julie Gustanski and Roderick Squires (EdS), 2001 Org Member price: $45.00 \| Non-member price: $56.00 An excellent reference source with a comprehensive collection of articles on the background, scope and use of conservation easements from a national geographic perspective. Examines innovative ways in which conservation easements have been used around the country.
Buy Now!	Working Forests Conservation Easements Author: Brenda Lind, 2001 Org Member price: $16.00 \| Non-member price: $20.00 Designed to help individuals and organizations craft conservation easements to protect the many values of working forestland. Presents sample easement language from a variety of organizations.
Buy Now!	Working Ranchland Conservation Easements Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2000 Org Member price: $15.00 \| Non-member price: $20.00 Designed to give land trusts and land conservationists sound ideas to incorporate into their efforts to protect ranch lands from inappropriate development.
Buy Now!	Your Land is a Legacy: A Guide to Planning for the Future of Your Farm Author: Jeremiah P. Cosgrove and Julia Freedgood, 2002 Org Member price: $11.95 \| Non-member price: $13.95 Helps families understand the importance of estate planning for working farms and ranches and how to take the next step in ensuring their lands will always be open space.