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May 14—The idea of placing family land under a conservation easement has been on Luci Yeat's mind for 35 years. Now, a portion of that land is officially conserved in perpetuity. A total of 76.5 ...
Under the conservation easement, GreenWood Resources — a timber investment company that manages lands previously owned by Weyerhaeuser and other timber companies — will continue to own the ...
A 4-acre piece of privately owned land with 589 feet of shoreline near the Door Bluff Headlands is now under a conservation easement with the Door County Land Trust, part of the more than 486 ...
Conservation easement boundary sign. In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights ...
Elsing Green in Virginia, which was granted an easement to preserve the land. Farmland preservation is a joint effort by non-governmental organizations and local governments to set aside and protect examples of a region's farmland for the use, education, and enjoyment of future generations. They are operated mostly at state and local levels by ...
A conservation easement agreement was placed on December 27, 2007. Originally part of the historic Spanish land grant, Rancho Cañada de los Pinos , the owners purchased San Lucas Ranch in 1924. This donated easement on 1,534 acres (6.21 km 2 ) of the working ranch preserves a piece of California's western heritage and habitat resources.
Based on two appraisals it did on the property, the Water Supply Board offered him $292,000 for a conservation easement on 60 acres, with a 5-acre “envelope” that would allow him to build a house.
The easement contains pipes that supply water to 360,000 residents. The problem is that those pipes are now nearly 100 years old, so a rupture could happen at any time, resulting in untold damages.