Land Conservation & Protection

Are you a land owner interested in donating land to a qualified land trust or a public entity? Would input and guidance be useful to develop a strategy and conservation plan that preserves your interests, yet optimizes the gift and assures long term protection? An experienced land planner and facilitator often helps clarify and prioritize individuals or family interests.

Or, does your land trust or agency have an exciting prospect and need assistance in land planning and analysis? Perhaps a particular project would benefit from assistance in: working with the donor, or, implementing a limited development option, or, in planning and gaining approvals from local authorities. Is monitoring compliance with conservation restrictions a growing concern?

Does saving legal cost seem attractive? Preferred rates are offered to donors or recipient organizations. Value may be obtained by engaging specific assistance in project components or in broader support of programmatic goals and protection priorities.

Specifically tailored services are provided to the land conservation community to meet donor wishes or recipient organization’s philosophy and programmatic goals – from concept to completion.

• Conservation Restrictions
  • Identify Donor Goals & Priorities
  • Identify Lands of Conservation Interest
  • Draft Restrictions
  • Develop Reserved Rights/Preserved Uses
  • Assist in Donor/Recipient Negotiations
  • Land Planning for Real Property Appraisals & Estate Tax Analyses
  • Assistance in Estate Planning with Land Assets
• Conservation Organization Support
  • CR Base Line Surveys
  • CR Field Reviews & Monitoring
  • Natural Resources Inventories
  • Stewardship Plans
  • Limited Development Plans
  • Project Implementation & Management

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

Wendell Berry