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Effectiveness of conservation easements in agricultural regions

Conservation Biology, 2017
Abstract Conservation easements are a standard technique for preventing habitat loss, particularly in agricultural regions with extensive cropland cultivation, yet little is known about their effectiveness. I developed a spatial econometric approach to propensity‐score matching and used the approach to estimate the amount of habitat ...
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Conservation Covenants and Easements

Conservation covenants and easements are legal mechanisms for private landholders to contribute to long-term protection of natural values. This book furnishes a unique international legal and policy study of how covenants and easements in seven jurisdictions are supporting global biodiversity goals, and it considers how they may address new challenges ...
Benjamin J. Richardson, Dominic Bilton, Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Sarah Brugler, James A. Fitzsimons, Phillipa C. McCormack   +5 more
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Designing and Applying Conservation Easements

Journal of the American Planning Association, 1994
Abstract While the optimum role of conservation easements in planning remains unclear, data from the experience of land trusts suggest the tool has sufficient potential to merit serious consideration by planning professionals. Although planners are generally familiar with conservation easements, more attention to how they are designed and applied in ...
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Syndicated Conservation Easements Update

Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel, 2020
By letters dated September 17, the IRS commissioner provided updated statistics on the syndicated conservation easement listed transaction to the leadership of the Senate Finance Committee. Much of this data is derived from filed reportable transaction disclosure statements (Form 8886). Here are some of these statistics.
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Conservation Easement Tax Credits

State and Local Government Review, 2012
Public concern about urban sprawl has spurred states to offer incentives for land preservation, such as state income tax credits granted to donors of conservation easements. This study examines the effect of these tax credits on conservation easement donations to regional land trust organizations in the lower forty-eight states during the period from ...
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The Conservation Easement Tax Expenditure: In Search of Conservation Value

2012
Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 37 No.
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Conservation Easements and the Valuation Conundrum

Florida Tax Review, 2018
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) first officially sanctioned a charitable income tax deduction for the donation of a conservation easement in 1964. In 1980, Congress enacted § 170(h), which authorizes a deduction for the donation of a conservation easement or a façade easement that is “granted in perpetuity” to a government entity or charitable ...
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Additionality in Conservation Easements Programs: Grassland Easements in the Prairie Pothole Region

2014
Conversion of native sod (grassland) to cropland in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is threatening important breeding habitats for migratory birds. About 50 percent of North American ducks are produced in the grasslands of the PPR, even though this habitat accounts for only ten percent of duck breeding territory.
Savage, Jeffrey, Claassen, Roger, Breneman, Vincent E., Loesch, Chuck, Williams, Ryan, Savage, Jeffrey, Claassen, Roger, Breneman, Vincent E., Loesch, Chuck, Williams, Ryan   +9 more
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Conservation Easements on Private Land

This brief examines the prevalence and geographic distribution of federal conservation easements on private land in the United States using PAD-US data. Federal easement acreage is highly concentrated in large western and Plains states, with North Dakota and South Dakota ranking first and second in total private land area under federal easement ...
Zhao, Hongxi, Gammans, Matthew
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Tax Deductions and Conservation Easements

2017
Tax deductions and conservation easements are a financing mechanism for the conservation of tropical rainforests. As opposed to the more traditional approach where governments raise conservation finance through taxation, there is also the ability for local entities to utilize a tax deduction to raise conservation finance.
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