## AGENDA 

- Introduction
    + Land Trusts
    + Land Conservation Tools
- Conservation Easements
    + What are they? How do they work?
    + Components of Conservation Easements
- Regional Examples: Conservation Easements in New England
- Discussion 

##What is a Land Trust?  

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- A non-profit charitable organization working with landowners to protect thier land
    + Land trusts hold interest in property to protect it
   
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## Landowner Goal: Keep the land as a farm or woodland forever
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##Conservation Easements (CE)
- Legal agreement between
  
  a landowner and 
  
  a land trust or
  
  public agency
  
- Restricts the ammouny and 

Type of **development** 

that can occur on the land

- Protects the property's

conservation values **forever,** 

**in perpetuity** - 

perpetual easement

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##Property Rights

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##Landowner's Property Rights with a CE

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##BASIC COMPONENTS OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT
- **GRANT OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT**

- PURPOSES

- PROHIBITED ACTS

- RESERVED RIGHTS  

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##BASIC COMPONENTS OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT
- GRANT OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT

- **PURPOSES**

- PROHIBITED ACTS

- RESERVED RIGHTS  

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##BASIC COMPONENTS OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT
-  RANT OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT

- PURPOSES

- **PROHIBITED ACTS**

- RESERVED RIGHTS  

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##BASIC COMPONENTS OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT
- GRANT OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT

- PURPOSES

- PROHIBITED ACTS

- **RESERVED RIGHTS**  

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##BASIC COMPONENTS OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT
- GRANT OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT

- PURPOSES

- PROHIBITED ACTS

- **RESERVED RIGHTS**  

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##REGIONAL EXAMPLES 

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##DISCUSSION

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