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Finance

Buy Now	Doing Deals: A Guide to Buying for Land Conservation Author: The Trust for Public Land, 1995 Org Member price: $25.00 \| Regular price: $32.00 Sale Price: $16.00 Know what developers know after you read this insightful book about buying real estate for conservation. It includes information on working with landowners, surveys, appraisals, working with government agencies and negotiating.

Land Protection

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. "This book falls into that rare category of 'necessary.' For people concerned about preserving the fabric of this earth in a time of tempestuous change, Chris Wilson has provided a mandatory manual. It will do much good in the world." BILL MCKIBBEN, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy, advisor to Northeast Wilderness Trust “Everybody talks about saving nature. Here's your operating manual for getting the job done. It clearly explains how to assess biodiversity on a property, what it takes to maintain or restore it, where to find expert help at each stage, and why this all matters. Add solid advice on subjects from fundraising for projects to complying with regulations, and you have a book that belongs in every land trust office. The sooner, the better.” DOUGLAS H. CHADWICK, wildlife biologist, author of The Wolverine Way, and a founding board member of the conservation land trust Vital Ground. “This book should serve as an important resource to land conservation practitioners hoping to maximize their conservation impact. It provides a concise introduction to many important facets of the rapidly changing world of biodiversity conservation; where information can be quite powerful, and bringing the right information to your decisions can make all the difference.” PATRICK COMER, Chief Ecologist, NatureServe

Land Trust Essentials

Buy Now	Appraising Conservation and Historic Preservation Easements Published by the Land Trust Alliance and the Appraisal Institute Author: Richard J. Roddewig, 2011 Org Member Price: $60.00 \| Regular Price: $75.00 Revised and expanded in 2011, this authoritative handbook interprets national legislative initiatives and examines the valuation of conservation and historic preservation easements from the perspective of the IRS, the courts, easement-holding organizations and appraisers.
Buy Now	The Conservation Easement Handbook Authors: Elizabeth Byers and Karin Marchetti Ponte, 2005 Org Member price: $39.95 \| Regular 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. Comes with a CD-ROM of sample documents.
Buy Now	The Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements Author: Stephen J. Small, 1997 Org Member price: $69.00 \| Regular price: $95.00 This authoritative volume interprets the IRS final regulations on gifts of conservation easements and discusses related income and estate tax considerations. It also covers historic preservation easements, donations of remainder interests for conservation purposes and reservation of qualified mineral interests.
Buy Now	The Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements, 3rd Supplement Author: Stephen J. Small, 2001 Org Member price: $20.00 \| Regular price: $26.00 Interprets the important Tax Court cases and IRS Letter Rulings since 1996, and complements The Federal Tax Law volume.
	Starting a Land Trust: A Guide to Forming a Land Conservation Organization Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2000 This publication is out of print. A limited number of copies are available upon request--please call Katie Chang at (202) 800-2241 to inquire or e-mail pubs@lta.org. For information on setting up a land trust, we recommend the curriculum book Nonprofit Law and Recordkeeping, Volume I by Jane Prohaska.

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 \| Regular price: $26.00 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 \| Regular 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 \| Regular 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	Preserving Family Lands: Book II – More Strategies for the Future Author: Stephen J. Small, 1997 Org Member price: $18.00 \| Regular 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 \| Regular 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.

Responsible Governance

Standards and Practices

Buy Now	Land Trust Standards and Practices Guidebook: An Operating Manual for Land Trusts, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Revised Editors: Sylvia K. Bates and Tammara Van Ryn, 2006 Org Member price: $49.95 \| Regular price: $59.95 This two-volume set has all the information you need to implement the revised standards and practices with new text and updated and new sample documents.
Buy Now or Download	Land Trust Standards and Practices, Revised Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2004 Org Member price: $5.00 \| Regular price: $7.00 Download the PDF document for Free! This booklet outlines practices the Land Trust Alliance believes are essential for responsible operation of a land trust.
Buy Now or Download	Assessing Your Organization, Third Edition Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2010 Org Member Price: Booklet $12.00 \| Download Free! Regular Price: $15.00 \| Download $12.00 If your land trust is thinking about accreditation, an assessment is an essential first step in taking stock of your policies and procedures. Revised in November 2010, the third edition of our popular Assessing Your Organization (AYO) publication includes new and revised questions to bring it in closer alignment with the accreditation requirements, including the Application for Land Trust Accreditation, Master Attachment Checklist and Guidance Documents. We also made improvements based on the first-hand experience and feedback of many land trusts and consultants who have used the AYO to conduct Standards and Practices assessments.
Buy Now or Download	Amending Conservation Easements: Evolving Practices and Legal Principles Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2007 Org Member Price: Book $13.50 \| Download Free! Regular Price: Book $16.95 \| Download $12.00 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. While not the final word on the subject, it summarizes the "state of the art" on conservation easement amendments.
Buy Now	Background to the 2004 Revisions of Land Trust Standards and Practices Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2004 Org Member Price: $5.00 \| Regular Price: $7.00 Download the PDF document for free! This document provides land trusts with information about the new standards and practices and issues examined by the Land Trust Standards and Practices Advisory Team.
Buy Now	Land Trust Standards and Practices: Interpretation and Application of the 2004 Revisions for Quasi-Governmental Conservation Organizations Author: Sylvia K. Bates, 2007 Org Member Price: $5.00 \| Regular Price: $7.00 Download the PDF document for free!

Stewardship

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 Land Trust Alliance 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.

Strong Organizations

Tax Guides and Brochure

Download	Tax Incentive Brochure Author: Land Trust Alliance, 2013 Updated for 2013: A PDF version is available for download and printing from the Policy Toolkit page of our website.
Buy Now	Tax Benefits & Appraisals of Conservation Projects Authors: Larry Kueter and Mark Weston, 2007 Org Member Price: $20.95 \| Download Free! Regular Price: $25.95 \| Download $14.00 This book provides an overview of issues involved with appraising conservation projects and the 2006 changes to the federal law affecting donations of conservation easements. You will become familiar with the different components of IRC §170(h), Forms 8282 and 8283, and will be able to explain a “qualified contribution” and “qualified donee.” You will learn the basic techniques appraisers use in putting a value on conservation easements. Practices Covered: 10A-Tax Code Requirements; 10B-Appraisals NOTE: The enhanced easement incentive discussed in chapter 2 of this publication was recently renewed for 2013 and 2013. For the latest information on the incentive and the campaign to make it permanent, please visit http://www.landtrustalliance.org/policy
Buy Now	The Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements Author: Stephen J. Small, 1997 Org Member price: $69.00 \| Regular price: $95.00 This authoritative volume interprets the IRS final regulations on gifts of conservation easements and discusses related income and estate tax considerations. It also covers historic preservation easements, donations of remainder interests for conservation purposes and reservation of qualified mineral interests.
Buy Now	The Federal Tax Law of Conservation Easements, 3rd Supplement Author: Stephen J. Small, 2001 Org Member price: $20.00 \| Regular price: $26.00 Interprets the important Tax Court cases and IRS Letter Rulings since 1996, and complements The Federal Tax Law volume.
Buy Now	Preserving Family Lands: Book I – Essential Tax Strategies for the Landowner Author: Stephen J. Small, 2009 Org Member price: $22.00 \| Regular price: $26.00 Easy to read and informative, this guide tells how landowners can protect their land and reduce estate taxes.
Buy Now	Preserving Family Lands: Book II – More Strategies for the Future Author: Stephen J. Small, 1997 Org Member price: $18.00 \| Regular 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 \| Regular 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.
	A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements Author: C. Timothy Lindstrom, 2008 This publication is no longer available through the Land Trust Alliance. However, you can find it for sale on Amazon.com.

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