A conservation easement is a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and a government agency or qualified conservation organization that...
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Four types of easements are not agreed to: easement by necessity, easement by implication, easement by prescription and easement by condemnation.
Easements are commonly found in real estate. In general terms, an easement is an arrangement whereby a non-owner of a property has the legal right...
This thing that’s paralyzing our big banks and gutting the stock market used to be called a “panic.” Today, it’s a meltdown, or a mess or an...
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A conservation easement is a viable solution for landowners who want to protect their land from development.
Conservation easements (CEs) provide a break for their donors on local, state, federal and estate taxes. What has been the experience of LANDTHINK...
The hills are alive with the sound of…chainsaws. Americans in the tens of thousands are out cutting firewood to keep warm this winter. We burn wood...
The pathway to conservation easements is not always a straight line but, more often than not, is worth the trip. [Dean Saunders, ALC] Conservation...
The phone call came in cold, three weeks ago. A major gas company was offering $10,000 to buy a 50-foot-wide, pipeline right-of-way easement over...