Land Conservation
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Mineral Development and Land ConservationAuthors: Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts, 2009Org Member Price: $15.00 | Regular Price: $18.00 The best way to reduce conflicts between land conservation and mineral development is to make sure everyone operates, from th beginning, with the best possible information. The impressive team of experts who contributed to this handbook did exactly that --they compiled a state-of-the-art guide that will be a well-used resource for every land conservation professional in Colorado and beyond. |
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Protecting Surface Water Quality with Conservation Easements: A Process Guide for land trusts, landowners and public agenciesAuthor: Brenda Lind, 1995Org Member price: $16.00 | Non-member price: $20.00 Prepared with the advice of experienced easement practitioners, this guide includes examples from successful easement programs and samples of specific easement language to address a range of water resource protection goals and situations. |
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Working Forests Conservation Easements: A Process Guide for land trusts, landowners and public agenciesAuthor: Brenda Lind, 2001Org 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. Contains recommended tools for forest management; forest management plans; and information on baseline documentation and easement monitoring. |
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Working Ranchland Conservation Easements: Results from the Working Ranchland Conservation Easement Learning CircleAuthor: Brenda Lind and Marty Zeller, 2002Org 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 ranchlands from inappropriate development. Summarizes the experiences and viewpoints of organizations that have been successful at protecting open land and working ranches. |
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Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in AmericaAuthor: Richard Brewer, 2003Org Member price: $20.00 | Regular price: $23.50 Written for land trust members, volunteers and supporters, this is the first comprehensive treatment of land trusts that combines a historical overview of the movement with more specific information on the different kinds of land trusts. |
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Cost of Community Services Studies: Making the Case for Land ConservationAuthor: Julia Freedgood, 2002Org Member price: $14.50 | Regular price: $16.95 Details more than 80 Cost of Community Services studies conducted by American Farmland Trust, showing that privately owned farms, forests and ranchlands generate more in local revenues than they require in services. |
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How Strong Are Our DefensesAuthor: Brenda Lind, 2000Org 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. |
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Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements Past, Present, and FutureEditors: Julie Gustanski and Roderick H. Squires, 2000Org 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 ways in which conservation easements have been used around the country. With a foreword by past Alliance president Jean Hocker. |
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Saving the Ranch: Conservation Easement Design in the American WestAuthor: Anthony Anella and John B. Wright, 2004Org Member price: $30.00 | Regular price: $37.50 The book shows how ranchers can reduce estate taxes, generate and shelter income, and combine land conservation with estate planning. Case studies explore how conservation easements have been used, helping readers to understand the variety of circumstances under which easements can be effective. |
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The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: William Shutkin, 2001Org Member price: $39.00 | Regular price: $39.00 In this book, environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a special kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. |
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This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic FarmAuthor: Scott Chaskey, 2005Org Member price: $10.00 | Regular price: $12.50 As the former head of the organic Quail Hill Farm on Long Island's South Fork, Chaskey gives an energetic account of "the education of a gardener become farmer, representing a committed community" as well as "the challenges faced by all small farms, enlivened by a wind from the sea." |
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Land Trust GeographyAuthor: Charles Convis, 2001Org Member price: $4.95 | Regular price: $4.95 Magazine format presenting case studies and information from approximately a dozen land trusts that have used GIS (geographic information system) hardware, software and data to make critical decisions based on the local landscape. |
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Erler's Land StewardOrg Member price: $99.00 | Non-member price: $199.00Erler'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. |
