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    Travel the Conservation Easement Stewardship Learning Path to uncover training resources to prepare your land trust to steward its conservation easements.

    Land trusts exist to conserve land. Closing and recording the conservation easement is really just the first step in the conservation journey. Easement holders have a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure that landowners comply with the terms of their conservation easements to uphold the public benefit.

    In addition to the tools presented here, there are a wealth of sample documents from land trusts across the country under the specific practice number. Travel the Conservation Easement Stewardship Learning Path to uncover training resources to prepare you to steward your conservation easements.

    Looking for resources on managing your land trust properties?  Check out the Land Stewardship learning path.

    A Note on Resources

    Where available, self-guided courses are included but written guidance on practices is also available and listed. You may need to scroll down the webpage to reach the guidance for the practice element. If you are looking for sample policies and templates, they can be found under each of the practices.

    Overview

    Introduction to stewardship

    Documenting significant changes to the land

    See the Drafting baselines section of the Land Acquisition learning path.

    Conservation easement monitoring

    Stewardship administration

    Determining stewardship and defense costs for conservation easements

    Managing stewardship funds

    Adapting to changing conditions

    Recordkeeping

    Landowner relationships

    Conservation easement enforcement

    Policies

    Managing potential violations

    Contingency strategy

    Approvals and permitted rights

    Easement modification and extinguishment

    Amendment policy

    Evaluating amendment requests

    Extinguishment

    Condemnation

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