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Conservation easements belong to a patchwork of state and local policies, land trusts and landowner agreements dating to the environmental movement of the 1970s. The federal government has ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
TR's conservation policies. Below is a list of lands set aside as national parks, reserves, or other conservatories by President Theodore Roosevelt via executive order or proclamation. During his presidency, Roosevelt issued nearly 10 times more executive orders than his predecessor. [1]
American Land Conservancy was a non-profit land conservation organization dedicated to protecting America's natural heritage by conserving land for the benefit of people and wildlife. Since its founding in 1990, American Land Conservancy has conserved more than 276,000 acres (1,120 km 2 ) of land and water resources, working farms and ranches ...
Federal protected areas include lands and waters owned outright ("Fee ownerships"), as well as areas that are secured by easements, leases, etc. In addition to ownership-defined areas, there are numerous overlaying policy designations that apply management protections and use conditions on all or some of individual protected areas (e.g ...