STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAW) - The North Central Conservancy Trust recently signed its latest conservation easement, forever protecting 240 acres of privately owned land. The conservation easement was ...

On the first day that Dan and Zita Elrod stepped foot on a plot of wooded land with a cabin overlooking the Duck River, they ...

A one-acre lot in Jefferson County, Colorado, netted its owners $360,000 in tax credits when they put it in a conservation easement through Noah Land Conservation. KEN PAPALEO/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Erin ...

With some digging, you should be able to find out the locations of conservation easements in your area, and the basic terms, such as which activities are allowed and not allowed on the land. You may ...

In places like upstate New York where most land is in private hands, protecting the environment will take the efforts of many. View overlooking Fourth Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, July 2013.

BOZEMAN — The owners of a 4,000-acre ranch near Ringling have signed a deal creating a second conservation easement on their land that that will protect it from future development. The latest easement ...

Conservation easements are supposed to shield land from development forever, not enable it years down the road. But in Florida, at times key road connections — or political connections — trump the ...