Landowner Resources

Buy Now!	Conservation Options Brochure Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2008 (Pack of 25) Org Member price: $10.00 \| Non-member price: $12.50 Brand New for 2008! Conservation Options presents an overview of conservation methods that private landowners and land trusts can use to work together to conserve land for natural, recreational, scenic, historical, and productive value. 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 Landowners 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! Updated in 2003 to reflect the most current tax law, with slot for a business card, pocket for 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 that explains the tools and tax benefits of private land conservation.
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 I Author: Stephen J. Small, 1998 Org Member price: $18.00 \| Non-member price: $23.00 Easy to read and informative, this guide tells how landowners can protect their land and reduce estate taxes.
Buy Now!	Preserving Family Lands II 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 III 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!	Your Land is Your Legacy: A Guide to Planning for the Future of Your Farm Author: Cosgrove, Jeremiah P. 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. Written the booklet, updated to include the newest tax laws, gives case studies to help families learn the techniques for keeping their lands in the family and in production.