Sample for Practice 11F: Policy for Temporary Commercial Activities

This is a sample agreement that intended to clarify and set forth guidance for stewardship and enforcement activities regarding the co-holding or backup-holding of conservation easements between the Potomac Conservancy and the Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust (both accredited).

Use the following checklist to help identify an easement violation.

These drafting pointers will help you consider the minimum criteria for a sound forestry clause, whether the landowner manages the conserved land for timber income or whether forest management activities support personal use goals, such as firewood production, habitat improvement or recreation.

A sample policy for responding to easement violations, including a process checklist from the accredited Marin Agricultural Land Trust.

To help accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in a way that helps people and nature thrive, The Nature Conservancy is providing the Site Renewables Right interactive online map. The map synthesizes more than 100 layers of engineering, land-use and wildlife data.

This pointer offers land trusts tips for evaluating siting renewables and transmission infrastructure on land that they own.

Join us for a discussion about how to prepare for and strike a balance between this development and the protection of important natural and community resources.

Conservation easements are more likely to withstand legal challenge when the drafting is informed by general and state specific rules of judicial construction. This pointer includes a variety of drafting considerations to strengthen easement language.