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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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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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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 …
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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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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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Rents, efficiency, and incomplete markets: exploring the inner workings of the emerging market for private land preservation and conservation easements
… I present a comprehensive economic analysis of conservation easements (the policy tool most often used by the private land preservation movement) and I use this analysis to determine contributing sources to the incomplete market. I make the case that markets that display limited or no price …
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Exploring the “Where” and the “Why” of Conservation Easements: The Role of Community-level Factors in the Likelihood of Adoption
Over the past several decades conservation easements have seen immense growth in their popularity. There are now over 40 million acres of easement land in the United States, up from only 1.4 million in 1998. A significant body of research exists on easements, factors that lead to their adoption, …
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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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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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An Analysis of Rangeland Preservation in Western States
… Preservation in Western States iii land conservation vary. Land trust organizations facilitate preservation using conservation easements, which keep working lands working and in private ownership, while restricting most development. I explore the literature on rangelands, agricultural …
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Empirical models of land conservation and land use
… rural, in United States. First, I focus on land conservation and study how state fiscal incentives can affect private land conservation on the eastern region of the country. Then, I move to urban uses of land and analyze how distance to certain amenities in a city can affect residential and …
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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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Assessing land conservation strategies : the case of the Florida Everglades
… level rise will inundate over 20% of existing conservation lands. Species will be dislocated and migrate to new land. Simultaneously, more than 500,000 people are moving to the region annually. The new populations are subdividing and developing rural lands. By 2100, it is estimated that over …
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Watershed Protection as the Primary Tool to Achieve High Quality Drinking Water
… by cities range from complete protection through conservation easements, land acquisitions, and designations to management strategies, such as the implementation of agricultural and forestry management practices.</p>
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Land-cover change within the peatlands along the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana: 1937-2009
… natural state of those peatlands, and they hold conservation easements for three of the other fens. One peatland is owned by the state and another is located within the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Conversely the sprawling Theboe Lake wetland has been heavily disturbed by ongoing agriculture …
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Land-cover change within the peatlands along the Rocky Mountain Front, Montana: 1937-2009
… natural state of those peatlands, and they hold conservation easements for three of the other fens. One peatland is owned by the state and another is located within the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Conversely the sprawling Theboe Lake wetland has been heavily disturbed by ongoing agriculture …
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