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Conservation Easements

What is a conservation easement?  A conservation easement is a voluntary agreement
between two parties who share mutual goals for preserving a natural area. Working with The Nature Conservancy, you agree to limit or prevent certain types of uses on the property, such as the right to subdivide. Such stipulations must be followed by present and future owners of the property. The easement also details ecologically compatible future use, while ensuring your right to benefits such as hunting, timbering and farming. Most importantly, you retain ownership and traditional uses, while your land’s conservation values are safeguarded for generations to come.  Since 1961, The Nature Conservancy has been working with private landowners to translate their land ethic into permanent protection of land and water habitats.  Learn more about conservation easements.

If you want to leave a legacy, you have an ally in The Nature Conservancy.  Let us help you reach your goals; keep property in the family, manage your land strategically, enjoy good times, from hiking to hunting, gain revenue from farming or timbering and create a lasting legacy.  Learn more about leaving your legacy.

Senate Finance Commitee

The Senate Finance Committee has been conducting an inquiry into the land transactions and governance of The Nature Conservancy since 2003, following a series of articles in the Washington Post that criticized certain projects of the Conservancy.  None of these projects were illegal, and none were in South Carolina.  The Conservancy has fully cooperated with the Committee and provided all information as requested.

The South Carolina Department of Revenue recently concluded an audit of all donated South Carolina conservation easements and land gifts for a period of 1998 to 2003.   The purpose of the audit was to identify questionable tax benefits for the donating landowners.  The Department of Revenue did not identify any questionable transactions involving The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina.  Click here to read the letter from Burnet R. Maybank, Director of the Department of Revenue.

What does Governor Mark Sanford say about conservation easements, click here to find out.

For additional information on conservation easements:
The Nature Conservancy
Land Protection Program in South Carolina
960 Morrison Drive, Suite 100
Charleston, SC 29403
(843) 937-8807