Monitoring Agricultural Land Easements

Is your organization looking to utilize the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program-Agricultural Land Easements Program? This toolkit includes land trust success stories using the ACEP-ALE program, step-by-step guidance for your application and an acronym guide and glossary.

This 90-minute interactive session provides foundational information on applying for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Agricultural Land Easement program.

This document summarizes NRCS policy on violations and enforcement, which is available in full in the Title 440 Conservation Programs Manual, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, (CPM Part 528.92), as well as highlighting relevant Land Trust Standards and Practices.

A sample training manual for volunteer easement monitors from the accredited Montezuma Land Conservancy.

A sample easement monitoring report from the accredited Jackson Hole Land Trust.

This is a sample conservation easement monitoring plan from the accredited West Wisconsin Land Trust.

Across our nation, we are seeing success in implementing Agricultural Conservation Easement Program-Agricultural Land Easements Program funding to conserve our farmland and ranchland for future generations. The following case study shows how ALE programming has helped conservation of Camp Williams in Utah.

This document summarizes NRCS policy on Easement Administration Action Procedural Requirements, which is available in full in the Title 440 Conservation Programs Manual, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), (CPM Part 528.171), as well as highlighting the relevant Land Trust Standards and Practices.

Use the template below to draft (or outline) a monitoring policy.

This document summarizes NRCS policy on title corrections and legal adjustments, which is available in full in the Title 440 Conservation Programs Manual, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), (CPM Part 528.173).