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Nancy McLaughlin According to the census data collected by the Land Trust Alliance (LTA), over the past two decades there has been a dramatic increase in the number of local, state, and regional land trusts operating in the United States,1 and in the number of acres encumbered by conservation easements2 held by such land trusts.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Easements--Why-and-How/177/
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R. Lee Stephens, Jr and
Robert J. Allen On July 14, 2010, the U.S. Tax Court issued its opinion in Scheidelman v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2010-151, and the decision provides conservation easement professionals with two important lessons.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Lessons-on-Charitable-Conservation-Contributions-from-Scheidelman-vCommissioner/95/
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R. Lee Stephens, Jr and
Robert J. Allen Many landowners are familiar with conservation easements, a vehicle for preserving land in perpetuity, but they may not be aware of another option: selling the development rights to their property.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Purchase-of-Development-Rights--Another-Option-for-Conservation-Minded-Landowners/94/
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Resources First Foundation - RFF We’ve highlighted some program changes, key new provisions, as well as entirely new conservation and energy programs. Without further ado, ...
https://www.landcan.org/article/Program-Changes-in-the-2008-Farm-Bill-/190/
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Nancy McLaughlin Over the past quarter century there has been an explosive growth in the use of conservation easements as a land protection tool. A conservation easement is a deed transferred by the owner of the land encumbered by the easement to the holder of the easement (generally a government agency or a charitable conservation organization referred to as a “land trust”) that restricts the development and use of the land to achieve certain conservation goals, such as the preservation of open space, wildlife habitat, agricultural land, or an historic site.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Amending-Perpetual-Conservation-Easements--A-Case-Study-Of-The-Myrtle-Grove-Controversy/214/
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Nancy McLaughlin and
W. William Weeks Charitable gifts made to government entities and charitable organizations can be either restricted or unrestricted. An unrestricted charitable gift is a contribution of money or property that the donor makes without attaching any conditions on its use by the recipient entity or organization.
https://www.landcan.org/article/In-Defense-of-Conservation-Easements--A-Response-to-the-End-of-Perpetuity/216/
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Nancy McLaughlin The use of tax incentives to encourage private landowners to donate conservation easements has become increasingly popular as policy makers search for ways to combat the growing problem of urban sprawl.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Increasing-the-Tax-Incentives-for-Conservation-Easement-Donations--A-Responsible-Approach/194/
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Amos Eno This is the presentation to the Simsbury Connecticut Land Trust given by Amos Eno, President, Resources First Foundation on November 4, 2012.
https://www.landcan.org/article/A-Tuning-Fork-for-Conservation-by-Amos-S-Eno-President-Resources-First-Foundation-November-4-2012/566/
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Amos Eno Private land stewardship cannot be coerced. It must be encouraged, incentivized, recognized, rewarded, highlighted through profiling innovative leaders, and above all, made clear and relatively straight forward.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Private-Lands-the-New-Conservation-Frontier-A-Mavericks-Thesis/462/
A Univ. of Arkansas fact sheet detailing the water cycle and little ways to save lots of water at home - both inside and outside.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Home-Water-Conservation/355/
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Mission:Wildlife, Sand County Foundation On July 22nd, 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released a promising new policy to spur more investment in species that are declining but not yet subject to protection under the ESA.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Headstarting-Conservation--Reviewing-new-policy-to-incentivize-early-investments-in-declining-species/2490/
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Rod Wanger https://www.landcan.org/article/A-brief-overview-of-the-Continuous-Conservation-Reserve-Program-CCRP/1871/
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USDA - NRCS The USDA-NRCS is operating a pilot program through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to provide assistance to eligible producers in meeting the EPA requirements for an Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Spill-Prevention-Control-and-Countermeasure-Conservation-Activity-Plan-/1803/
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Conservation banks are permanently protected lands that contain natural resource values. These lands are conserved and permanently managed for species that are endangered, threatened, candidates for listing, or are otherwise species-at-risk.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-Banking--Incentives-for-Stewardship/2231/
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Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife https://www.landcan.org/article/-Oregon-Conservation-Strategy--Oregons-Unique-Natural-Heritage/2325/
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Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife https://www.landcan.org/article/-Oregon-Conservation-Strategy--A-Summary-of-Strategy-Habitats-and-Species/2328/
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Bradley Lubben and James Pease, Choices Magazine Conservation has been part of federal farm policy since the first farm bills of the 1930s. Over time, conservation has grown in the farm bill to address multiple objectives and eco-system services and to respond to a wider array of stakeholders.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Conservation-and-the-Agricultural-Act-of-2014/2383/
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Kristin Weeks Duncanson, Jim Moseley, and Fred Yoder “Working Lands Conservation Cooperatives” envisions groups of landowners and producers, supported by robust technical assistance, driving efforts at a watershed or landscape scale to identify and agree on locally-appropriate conservation performance benchmarks to which all landowners and producers in an area would hold themselves accountable as a group.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Cooperative-Conservation--A-ProducerLed-Approach-to-Achieving-Healthy-Agricultural-Landscapes/2416/
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Gunnison Basin Sage-Grouse Strategic Committee This Conservation Action Plan is the result of the efforts of the Gunnison Basin Sage-grouse Strategic Committee to ensure that adequate work is being conducted to conserve the Gunnison Sage-grouse.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Gunnison-County-SageGrouse-Conservation-Action-Plan/2457/
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Early conservation efforts for declining species can be greatly expanded through collaborative approaches that foster cooperation and exchange of ideas among multiple parties.
https://www.landcan.org/article/Candidate-Conservation-Agreements/1785/
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