Landowner Resources

These publications describe conservation options and land trusts to landowners.

Buy Now	Preserving Family Lands: Book I – Essential Tax Strategies for the Landowner Author: Stephen J. Small, 2009 Org Member price: $22.00 \| Non-member price: $26.00 UPDATED INFORMATION ON TAX BENEFITS FOR 2009! Easy to read and informative, this guide tells how landowners can protect their land and reduce estate taxes.
Buy Now!	Conserving Your Land Brochure Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2008 (Pack of 25) Org Member price: $10.00 \| Non-member price: $12.50 Conserving Your Land presents an overview of conservation methods for private landowners. It’s ideal for handing out to landowners! The newly redesigned handout replaces Protecting Your Land with a Conservation Easement and Conservation Options for Private Landowners.
Buy Now!	Conservation Options: A Landowner's Guide Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2003 Org Member price: $7.00 \| Non-member price: $8.50 No other publication offers so much information about how to conserve open spaces. The format includes a slot for a business card, your land trust brochure, and a place on the back to affix your land trust logo. This is an effective ‘leave behind’ piece for prospective conservation easement donors.
Buy Now!	Cost of Community Services Studiees: Making the Case for Land Conservation Author: Julia Freedgood with Editors Lori Tanner, Carl Mailler, Andy Andrews, Melissa Adams, 2002 Org Member price: $14.50 \| Non-member price: $16.95 Details more than 80 cost of community services studies conducted by the American Farmland Trust, showing that privately owned farms, forest and ranchlands generate more in local revenues than they require in services.
Buy Now!	Preserving Family Lands: Book II – More Strategies for the Future Author: Stephen J. Small, 1997 Org Member price: $18.00 \| Non-member price: $23.00 A second and equally valuable book that gives concrete examples of basic estate and gift tax rules, charitable remainder trusts and other topics.
Buy Now!	Preserving Family Lands: Book III – New Tax Rules and Strategies and a Checklist Author: Stephen J. Small, 2002 Org Member price: $20.00 \| Non-member price: $25.00 The newest book in the series contains a comprehensive conservation easement project checklist that helps people understand all issues associated with this protection tool, especially the tax issues. It also sheds important new light on the tax incentives contained in Section 2031 (c), added to the tax code in 1997.
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. The episode features farmers who have partnered with the Conservation Trust of Florida and the Red Hills Conservation Program to establish conservation easements.