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Bret Vicary, Ph.D., MAI, CGA, LPF Timberland transactions increasingly involve conservation easements, wood supply agreements, and green certification considerations. On the one hand, these features can reduce the price and total flexibility associated with timberland ownership.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements-Supply-Agreements-and-Green-Certification/128/
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By Romina Boccia, Jack Spencer and Robert Gordon America's primary environmental goal should be a cleaner, healthier, and safer environment for current and future generations. Yet, governing environmental laws have strayed far from intended purposes, and their implementations are imposing immense costs on Americans with few benefits in return.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Environmental-Conservation-Based-on-Individual-Liberty-and-Economic-Freedom/641/
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Steven I. Apfelbaum, Alan Haney, Alvaro F. Ugalde Land conservation can occur either through bottom-up grassroots organizing where local landowners take efforts to conserve the land that they treasure, or though top-down agency organization that can be an imposition on local landowners.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Bottomup-Versus-Topdown-Land-Conservation/776/
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Curtis Seltzer About 10.6 million privately owned acres -- an area about twice the size of Connecticut -- now carry conservation easements. This land base is growing by more than one million acres annually.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements-on-Land-Need-to-be-Thought-Through/129/
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EarthX Conservation Watch and listen as this expert panel discusses the current state of agriculture and conservation in today's world. Moderated by Alex Echols this panel provides insight and information on the current state of agricultural practices.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Regenerative-Agriculture/3604/
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EarthX Conservation Watch and listen to a discussion by the EarthX Conservation Forestry Panel talking about current issues on western fires and prescribed burning.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Forestry-Western-Fires-and-Prescribed-Fires/3605/
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Adam Miller It may come as a shock, but there is a sort of symbiotic relationship at work between property owners with conservation easements and the IRS.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements-and-the-2010-Roth-Conversion--A-symbiotic-relationship-/111/
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Nancy McLaughlin The conservation easement is arguably the single most popular private land protection tool in this country today, and its use has increased dramatically (indeed, almost exponentially) over the past two and a half decades.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements--A-Troubled-Adolescence/174/
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Benjamin S. Halperna, Carissa J. Kleinc, Christopher J. Brown, Maria Beger, Hedley S. Grantham, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Mary Ruckelshaus, Vivitskaia J. Tulloch, Matt Watts, Crow White, and Hugh P. Possingham Triple–bottom-line outcomes from resource management and conservation, where conservation goals and equity in social outcomes are maximized while overall costs are minimized, remain a highly sought-after ideal.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Achieving-the-triple-bottom-line-in-the-face-of-inherent-tradeoffs-among-social-equity-economic-return-and-conservation/954/
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation Incorporating pollinator conservation into your rangeland management may not require large-scale changes, but rather a shift to a broader view of rangelands as permanent habitat for creatures large and small.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Rangeland-Management-and-Pollinators/3724/
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Thomas L. Daniels The United States is about to experience its largest-ever intergenerational transfer of wealth: more than $10 trillion are expected to change hands in the next 10 to 20 years.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Transferring-Wealth-through-Land-Conservation/126/
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Stephen J. Small, Esq. It is important to emphasize that not every easement restricting the future development of property will meet the tax law requirements. The tax law requires that the gift be for conservation purposes. A ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/Test-your-knowledge-of-Conservation-Purposes/180/
Considering conservation buffers on your land? The USDA has 250,000 or more buffer contracts with about 160,000 farms and ranches. They may be a good choice for your land and for the environment.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Buffers-on-your-Land/197/
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Cathy Berg This Farm and Dairy article explains how conservation is a journey for our country.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Lets-Get-Serious-About-Conservation/1258/
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Brad Haire The foundation report took three years to compile and includes the thoughts of leaders in agriculture, forestry and conservation to identify land challenges today and in the years ahead.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Farm-Foundation-puts-farm-land-conservation-future-on-same-page/1018/
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Conservation Technology Information Center The 2016-2017 cover crop survey report from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension (SARE) program, Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) and American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) is now available.& ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/Fifth-annual-cover-crop-survey-results/3169/
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Nancy McLaughlin The use of conservation easements as a land-protection tool has grown considerably over the past several decades, and with that growth has come criticism from a variety of sources.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Protecting-The-Public-Interest-And-Investment-In-Conservation---A-Response-To-Professor-Korngolds-Critique-Of-Conservation-Easements/200/
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USDA - NRCS This document outlines broad strategies for the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI). The initiative grew out of realization that the 1985 Farm Bill had resulted in a lack of on the ground technical assistance available for voluntary conservation planning.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Sustainable-Grazing-Lands-Providing-a-Healthy-Environment--Grazing-Lands-Conservation-Initiative-Strategic-Plan-20102015/2548/
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Strachan Donnelley Those of us who work in environmental and conservation philosophy and ethics recurrently confront an odd, seemingly anomalous problem. There are often deep rifts or fissures between well-meaning environmentalists and conservationists.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Environmentalism-and-Conservation--Connecting-the-Human-and-Nature-Dots/138/
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Nancy McLaughlin Perpetual conservation easements are intended to protect the particular land they encumber for the conservation purposes specified in the deed of conveyance “in perpetuity”—or at least until circumstances have changed so profoundly that continued protection of the land for those purposes is no longer feasible.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements--Perpetuity-and-Beyond/176/
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