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How Organizational Communication Shaped the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement
… how organizations involved with the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement negotiations might have used the feedback loop characteristic of two-way Symmetrical communication theory to reach consensus on the Hearst Ranch Conservation Agreement.</p> <p>Conservation easements are complex situations and …
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Incentives for conservation easement: a systematic literature review and an empirical evaluation of state tax credits in Colorado
A conservation easement (CE) is a legal agreement between private landowners and government entities or non-profit organizations that is widely used as a mechanism to protect private lands from development and promote long-term ecological, recreational, and agricultural benefits. Donated CEs in the …
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Farmland Conservation Easement Valuation Using an Attribute-based Choice Survey: Comparing Preferences within the United States, Georgia, Ohio and Maine
Farmland preservation has long been viewed by the public as a worthwhile endeavor. A public program can be set up to bring willing buyers and sellers together to facilitate the transfer of development rights. The farmer is paid for the opportunity cost of forfeiting the development rights to the …
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A Survey of Conservation Easement Restrictions on Private Forest Land to Determine their Effects on Forest Management and Timber Supply
Conservation easements are increasingly becoming a popular land use control for landowners, government agencies and non-profit conservation organizations. These legal documents restrict a landowner's development rights and constrain other property uses. The landowner (grantor) voluntarily places an …
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Protecting Scenic Views: Seventy Years of Managing and Enforcing Scenic Easements along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Conservation easements are among the fastest growing techniques for protecting land and open space. Conservation easements are legal agreements between a landowner and a conservation organization that limits or restricts entirely the right to develop a property in order to protect important …
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The Effects of Conservation Easements on Land Values
The Conservation easement has become a popular tool for land protection in the past few decades. Whether this development restriction will necessarily decrease the land value is an empirical question. This study employs a hedonic pricing approach to test empirically the effects of conservation …
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Conservation Easements: Providing Economic Incentive for the Conservation of Open Space and Farmland in the United States
… a non-developed use in perpetuity by placing a Conservation Easement on the property. This land value, the development rights of the land parcel, can be donated to a non-profit organization. The landowner may then deduct the development right value from their income tax as a charitable donation. …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
A conservation easement (CE) is a voluntary agreement that perpetually limits development on private land in order to protect open space, agricultural land, and scenic amenities, as well as ecological or historic resources. Due to the fact that CEs are voluntary, an understanding of the landowner’s …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
A conservation easement (CE) is a voluntary agreement that perpetually limits development on private land in order to protect open space, agricultural land, and scenic amenities, as well as ecological or historic resources. Due to the fact that CEs are voluntary, an understanding of the landowner’s …
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The economic consequences of private lands conservation using conservation easements in Colorado
Conservation easements have been used across the United States to preserve natural amenities and compensate landowners for the public goods they provide. From the Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program to the Grassland Reserve Program, Colorado conserves 2.4 million acres of land (Colorado Natural …
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The impacts of federal-state death and gift taxes on private nonindustrial forest owners
… installment payments, minority discounts, conservation easement donations and charitable remainder trusts.
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Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana
Huth, Megan, M.S., May 2007 Resource Conservation The Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana Chairperson: Jill Belsky Conservation easements have historically been used by land trusts and government agencies …
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Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana
Huth, Megan, M.S., May 2007 Resource Conservation The Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana Chairperson: Jill Belsky Conservation easements have historically been used by land trusts and government agencies …
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Population Forecasts and Management Considerations for Gray Wolves in North Central Wisconsin (2002--2040)
… population increases with road-building and conservation-easement scenarios, gLEAM mapped nine land-use change forecasts in a nine-county study area in north central Wisconsin. Secondly, the impact of each land-use change forecast on wolf population dynamics was evaluated. From the observed …
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savingthewildplaces.org
… it makes the Lewis and Clark National Forest a conservation easement of 208,000 acres, freezing the uses as they now exist under USFS management, permanently. It also sets up 67,000 acres of wilderness areas. While these monumental efforts continue, east of the RMF parcels of land owned by …
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savingthewildplaces.org
… it makes the Lewis and Clark National Forest a conservation easement of 208,000 acres, freezing the uses as they now exist under USFS management, permanently. It also sets up 67,000 acres of wilderness areas. While these monumental efforts continue, east of the RMF parcels of land owned by …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use, Environmental Value, and Public Spending
… their targeting. Chapter 1 tests the effect of conservation easement tax incentives on land conservation in Virginia, using a difference-in-difference design around a 2002 tax reform. This finds that the environmental quality distribution of easements is wide and matches the statewide quality …
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Donations and sales of conservation easements on forestland in the Northern Forest of New York State
This is a study of conservation easements of forestland in the Northern forest Region of New York State. Forestland easements are the subset of conservation easements encumbering forestland. As of 1995, there were 79 of these forestland easements within the study area. Of this total of 79 …