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Additionality in Conservation Easements Programs: Grassland Easements in the Prairie Pothole Region
2014Conversion 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.
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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
2017Tax 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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Conservation easement inventory project
2003In the fall of 2000, the Chatham Township Environmental Commission applied to the NJDEP for an ESP grant to inventory all conservation easements in the township, to prepare a map in GIS format using ArcView showing the easements with attributes, to create an easement baseline data form, and to conduct initial visits to one or more properties containing
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Use of Conservation Easements in Estate and Conservation Planning [PDF]
, 2014 Describes conservation easements and their tax benefits under Virginia and federal law.
Richardson, Jesse J., Geyer, L. Leon
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Conservation Easements: Perpetuity and Beyond
2007Perpetual 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.
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Defining the Role of Conservation in Agricultural Conservation Easements
2017Farmland preservation has become an important pursuit for those seeking to protect the working landscape against conversion to non-agricultural use. One of the most common approaches for securing this protection is through the targeted use of agricultural conservation easements, typically perpetual land use agreements designed to limit incompatible ...
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Win/Win with Conservation Easements
2007This pamphlet briefly explains the concept of conservation easement. Written for landowners, it outlines some of the benefits of conservation easements, describes an example, and lists organizations that can provide further information on the subject. The pamphlet also includes a map showing areas in Chatham Township that had conservation easements at ...
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