protecting land in perpetuity
a vital tool for landowners
Conservation easments are not widely understood, but they represent a valuable tool that can be used by individual land owners, as well as by community-based conservation groups, such as the Crestone/Baca Land Trust, to effectively reduce or eliminate development pressures on unspoiled and undeveloped land.
Essentially, a conservation easement is a modification of the title to a piece of land that strips away future development rights, either to the entire parcel or to a section of it - for example, a sensitive stream corridor that crosses a residential lot. Conservation easements, for example, can guarantee that land we care about will never be developed, even after we are no longer here to protect it.
But there is a lot more to the story of conservation easments. For more detailed information on the Land Trust's approach to conservation easement. please visit the "Easement" page in the Activities section of this web site. For further information on how you can place conservation easments on your land – or for help in doing so – please contact the Land Trust directly. Thanks! |
