Determining Public Benefit

Having written project selection criteria will help your land trust meet your conservation goals and ensure public benefit.

This is a template for creating selection criteria for conservation easements, created by the Land Trust Alliance.

This project selection criteria form from the accredited Montezuma Land Conservancy includes checklists to assess a property's goals, purposes, public benefit, feasibility and other factors.

This is a sample of Easement Project Site Evaluation Guidelines and a Site Evaluation Worksheet from the accredited Marin Agricultural Land Trust.

Court finds use of park as botanical garden was a legitimate public purpose and assessment of use and parking fee did not violate the terms of the charitable trust.