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    Webinar

    Advanced Risk Management: Land Division Legal Challenges

    Webinar Date
    January 23, 2025, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
    Source
    Land Trust Alliance
    Location
    Virtual
    Instructor
    Sarah Sheeran and Mike Okma
    About This Webinar

    ​​Most conservation easement deeds are designed to prohibit subdivision, and when a division in land ownership or threat thereof occurs, land trusts are charged with maintaining unified ownership, usually with the support of legal counsel. Mike Okma, manager of easement stewardship at the accredited Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, and Sarah Sheeran, stewardship director at the accredited Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, discuss two real-life subdivision cases, the implications for impermissible private benefit and federal tax deductions, the strategies they employed to successfully resolve these easement violations and lessons learned along the way.

    ​This event is part of the Land Trust Alliance and Terrafirma's annual risk management webinar series. If your organization is a Terrafirma member and anyone on your staff or board attends this webinar, your organization will receive the Terrafirma risk management discount for the 2025 policy year.

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    Cancellations and refunds will not be provided for any virtual programs where recordings of the program will be available after the live broadcast. If a registrant cannot participate live, they are encouraged to view the recording of that event or submit a transfer request to registration@lta.org. All virtual events will state on the event page if it will be recorded. We cannot apply credit from a cancelled purchase to your account.

    Recording

    This event will be recorded and available to everyone with access to the Resource Center until Dec. 2025.

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    ​​Abi Locatis Prochaska​

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