Drafting Baseline Documentation for Perpetuity

Drafting Baseline Documentation for Perpetuity 

Date:  June 3, 2009
Time: 3:00pm ET
Beginner-Intermediate
Cost:  $50 per connection

Workshop Description

Baseline documentation reports are the cornerstone of effective land conservation. As they record the condition of the land at the time the easement was put in place, they are essential in identifying the conservation attributes an organization plans on protecting as well as changes to the land over time, whether human or natural. This workshop will cover the basics of drafting effective baselines, including IRS regulations. Participants will learn the required and/or recommended components of baseline documentation as well as optional items that will help communicate with future land trust personnel and landowners and those items that should not be included. The course will also provide suggestions for how to complete baselines for easements that lack them and how to integrate baseline documentation into an easement stewardship program for ongoing effectiveness.

Audience: 

Land trust board members, staff or volunteers who are responsible for drafting baseline documentation reports.

Instructor:

Judy Anderson

Judy Anderson is a consultant for Community Consulting, where she coaches organizations and teaches courses on organizational development, community-based outreach and fundraising, conservation easement drafting and stewardship, public lands design, and community-based inclusive conservation. She is program chair for the NY Land Trust Alliance advisory committee and serves on the Alliance's national diversity committee. She served on the Alliance's standards and practices committee, amendment working group, and has been a reviewer for the Land Trust Alliance course “Determining Stewardship Costs and Raising and Managing Dedicated Funds.
  

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