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Land Conservation Measures: Understanding Conservation Easements

Learn about conservation easements, their creation, benefits, and impact on land conservation through property law and market mechanisms like conservation banks and payment for ecosystem services.

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Land Conservation Measures: Understanding Conservation Easements

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  1. Natural Resources Law Class #24 April 30, 2014

  2. Assignments/Grades/Rewrites • NEPA Comment (25%): 90 average • Water Negotiation (15%): 88 average • Mineral Memo (10%): 79 average • Rewrites possible for all three. You can receive ½ of the points remaining. • Due by noon May 12th (hand delivered to me or Linda Kelly with previous version attached)

  3. Land Conservation • Public • Fee Simple Landownership • Regulation • Private • Fee Simple Landownership • Servitudes • Conservation Easements • Other Market Mechanisms • Payment for ecosystem services • Conservation banks

  4. Conservation Easement Basics • Property Law Refresher • Negative Rights • In Gross • Perpetual • State Statutes • Parties • Landowners • Holders: Governments and Land Trusts • Purposes

  5. Agricultural Conservation Easement Purposes Environmental

  6. Archaeological / Cultural Conservation Easements Historical / Architectural

  7. Methods of Creation • Donation • Sales • Exactions • Condemnation • Judicial Actions

  8. Who Benefits? • Non Urban • Those With Access • Taxpayers • Individuals • Who Decides? • On the Location • On the Rules • On the Enforcement

  9. Placement

  10. Access

  11. Tax Dis/advantages

  12. DENSELY WOODED PUBLIC LAND 10 acres Developed area: residential and farm Main Road

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