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The Effects of Conservation Easements on Land Values
… to test empirically the effects of conservation easements on land values. The econometric results indicate that conservation easements can slightly increase the land values, but the effect is statistically insignificance. Considering the limited dataset, the interpretation of the results warrant …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
… the barriers to placing conservation easements on one’s property from the perspective of landowners in western Montana. This research was conducted in an effort to better understand how these landowners view conservation easements, where opposition to easements arises from, and how …
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Opposition and Barriers to Conservation Easements: Insights from Montana Landowners
… the barriers to placing conservation easements on one’s property from the perspective of landowners in western Montana. This research was conducted in an effort to better understand how these landowners view conservation easements, where opposition to easements arises from, and how …
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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 use of easements for the protection of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia
… of Virginia is presented, and the role that easements will play in promoting Virginia's efforts to protect the Trail is investigated. Various aspects of easements are analyzed, including approaches to the appraisal of easements, and the effect of easements on income and property taxes. In …
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An Economic Analysis of Flood Easements: The Case of the LaGrange Reach of the Illinois River
… flood costs may be reduced by implementing flood easements. Thus, the null hypothesis is rejected. Model results are robust to changes in the estimated dollar damages, yet extremely sensitive to changes in the hydrological estimates. The modeling approach may be applied to other large river …
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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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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
… 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 to preserve private land from development and …
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Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana
… 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 to preserve private land from development and …
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Conservation Easements: Providing Economic Incentive for the Conservation of Open Space and Farmland in the United States
… prime farm and open space land. Conservation Easements are shown to have applications in the protection of land subject to estate turnover, control of land uses that cause nuisance externalities, and general local land policy. A spreadsheet algorithm in Microsoft Excel Solver format is …
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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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Rents, efficiency, and incomplete markets: exploring the inner workings of the emerging market for private land preservation and conservation easements
… 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 information …
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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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Věcná břemena z pohledu finančního práva
… to Civil and Administrative law issues of the easements, in favour of the public infrastructure of network operators. Its content is an analysis of this legal institute from its historical development, definition, classification of the existing financially legal consequences, through financial …
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An Analysis of Rangeland Preservation in Western States
… 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 data, ballot measure trends, and case studies to present circumstances that facilitate and …
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Stopover duration and habitat use of spring-migrating dabbling ducks in the Wabash River Valley, USA
… amount of use in areas under conservation easements, suggesting the importance of these easements in waterfowl management. All of this information will help land managers and conservation planners direct funding to the most important habitats in the WRV and ensure sufficient resources for …
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Empirical models of land conservation and land use
… same methodology, I concentrate on conservation easements and estimate the probability of different levels of public access and how certain variables affect these probabilities. In the first chapter, I study the effect that state level incentives have on land conservation. Private decisions about …
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How Organizational Communication Shaped the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement
… Conservation Agreement.</p> <p>Conservation easements are complex situations and each has separate and distinct goals, constraints, compromises, funding mechanisms, and public values.</p> <p>This study analyzed public documents from seven different organizations that provided input in the …
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