Sample for Practice 9E: Conservation Easement Drafting Template

This guidance covers Practice 9E: Conservation Easement Drafting.

This is a sample deed of conservation easement from the accredited Pacific Forest Trust.

A sample conservation plan from the accredited Maine Coast Heritage Trust to help guide the negotiator of a conservation easement through initial conservation planning discussions with easement grantors.

A sample of a Model Deed of Conservation Easement from the Maryland Environmental Trust.

This is a conservation easement diagram from the accredited Columbia Land Conservancy.

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

Land trusts should use this checklist for every transaction. While not intended to be a complete list of topics that may be covered, the checklist includes certain matters that the Treasury Regulations require every conservation easement to address.

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.