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Download	Practical Pointers for Land Trusts: When Facing a Lawsuit or Other Legal Challenge of Any Size Published by the Vermont Law School Land Use Institute and the Land Trust Alliance, 2013 Org Member Price: Download Free! Regular Price: Download $14.00With protected land in the millions of acres and more land under easement transferring to successor landowners, violations will occur and land trusts must address all of them. Even the best-prepared land trust will eventually experience a major dispute that requires its personnel to exercise anger management and sound negotiation skills. This toolbox will help you build skills so that you are prepared to operate calmly, confidently, efficiently and effectively in the face of legal challenges. Although this toolbox focuses primarily on the challenges of defending conservation easements, the litigation issues and strategies are applicable to fee-owned lands. The purpose of this toolbox is to help land trust board members, staff and volunteers to successfully manage challenges, disputes and litigation. Land trust personnel who lack formal legal training but who are looking for more information about managing risk and dealing with legal challenges in land conservation should be able to use it easily. The toolbox includes definitions of formal legal terminology so that the lessons are accessible to the reader without legal training (roll the cursor over these terms to see definitions). The toolbox also includes examples of conservation defense lawsuits. The examples are summarized for clarity and so that an educated layperson will be able to understand them. Where possible, each example has a citation for those who wish to refer to the original legal text.
Buy Now or Download	Documenting and Protecting Biodiversity on Land Trust Projects Author: Christopher R. Wilson Org Member Price: $20.95 \| Download Free! Regular Price: $25.95 \| Download $14.00 This user-friendly guide bridges the gap between conservation biology and its application to typical land trust projects. Intended for land trusts, landowners, biologists, planers, and students, the handbook explains biodiversity and how it's conserved, what types of biological information are most useful, and how to gather such information through reviews of freely-available data sources and on-the-ground biological inventories. The book also explains how to apply biological information to standard land protection tasks, such as project selection, fundraising, drafting conservation easement language, compiling baseline documentation, writing management plans, and how the information helps land trust projects conform to IRS Treasury regulations and Land Trust Standards and Practices. View a sneak peek of the book.
Buy Now or Download	Strategic Conservation Planning Author: Ole Amundsen, III Org Member Price: Price $21.95 \| Download Free! Regular Price: $26.95 \| Download $14.00 According to the 2010 National Land Trust Census, land trusts that had strategic conservation plans protected twice as much land as land trusts without plans. Strategic Conservation Planning will help you visualize a future for your community and chart a course to realize that vision. Because your actions today will determine the parks, working farms, forests and scenic landscapes your children and grandchildren will enjoy, it pays to be careful in how you use your resources to ensure you save the right land. This publication provides you with the process and tools to identify, prioritize, pursue and protect the land that will most effectively and efficiently achieve your conservation mission. What land conservationists are saying: “The Strategic Conservation Planning guide is a thorough how to manual that explains the big-picture reasons for engaging in strategic planning, as well as giving step-by-step instructions with plenty of sample documents and case studies. This book is an invaluable resource, as our now dog-eared copy can attest.”

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