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Conservation Easements

Conservation Easements Protect Landscapes Efficiently and Effectively

For more than four decades, The Nature Conservancy has been using conservation easements to protect more of a landscape from development than could be accomplished through outright purchase.

• Conservation easements are one of the most popular conservation tools used by the more than 1,260 land trusts in the United States.
• Conservation easements extend conservation dollars by protecting ecologically important private lands without using fee purchase, thus freeing limited funds for other projects.
• Conservation easements target only those rights (such as subdivision development) necessary to protect specific conservation values (such as preserving bird migration routes).

For More Information:

• Press Release: Conservancy's New York State Director Appointed to Commission Overseeing Quality of Land Conservation
  Henry Tepper, Director of The Nature Conservancy's New York Chapter, was recently appointed by the Land Trust Alliance to a new commission established to ensure the quality of land conservation.
• Press Release: Outdoor Recreation and Conservation Groups Urge Congress To Preserve Vital Conservation Tax Incentive Tool
  Two dozen leading national hunting, fishing, outdoor recreation and conservation groups have released a letter to Congress expressing their strong support for conservation tax incentives for conservation easements and highlighting the vital role easements play in virtually all outdoor recreation in the United States.
• Press Release: The Nature Conservancy Releases Legislative Proposals to Strengthen Conservation Easements
  The Nature Conservancy released a set of legislative proposals designed to strengthen the laws and regulations governing conservation easements and help end abuses of this critically important conservation tool.