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Pursuing a Conservation Easement
This guidebook is intended to help landowners understand one of the most flexible and effective means available to conserve and protect private property – the conservation easement. A conservation easement is a legal agreement that ensures a property will be managed according to the..
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Congress recently extended, through 2009, a Federal tax incentive for conservation easement donations that has helped thousands of landowners conserve their land.


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Land Trust Tax Brochure
Land Trust Brochure
Each year thousands of acres of land in the Metro-East area are converted to urban uses. From 1992 to 1997 more than 21,700 acres were converted to urban land and the rate over the last five years continues to climb.

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