Adding to Land Under Conservation Easement

This document includes basic concepts of conservation easements that may help a landowner design the restrictions on the property under the conservation easement, and the rights they would like to retain under the conservation easement. It is a tool to help facilitate the education of landowners.

The Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants provides users with a state-of-the-art legal document together with an expansive commentary. Built on practitioner experiences and feedback, no easement document in the nation has benefited from more cycles of peer review.

This guide is designed for landowners looking to sell their land protected under conservation easement.

This is an annotated model conservation easement from the accredited Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.

This sample is a model agricultural easement with option to purchase.

Determining a property’s boundaries is a necessary part of a land trust’s due diligence. This document lays out how to read a survey and includes a checklist on what to check and an exercise to practice your skills.

A sample landowner guide from the accredited Colorado Open Lands.

This is a follow-up IRS letter to a previous advice request on the donation of a conservation easement on 39 acres and now adding 40 more parcels.

Selecting one of the following three approaches is the starting point for developing a risk management plan. These approaches are not mutually exclusive. Elements of all three approaches are found in most risk management programs. The approaches simply offer a framework or path that can be helpful to the land trust’s internal risk management champions.

In September 2020, Ethan Inlander and Scott Hardage published their recommended practices according to Land Trust Alliance Guidance