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 ...

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.

This swampland could generate a huge tax deduction by a dedication of a conservation easement .... and a fake business plan that says that it will soon be the site of a luxury resort otherwise. Just ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A first-of-its-kind agreement to protect wetlands from rising sea levels was signed in Norfolk on Tuesday. "Here we have a site where we are committing to make room for the wetlands as ...

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 ...

In Nebraska, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) says conservation easements could be blocked by the 1981 law that created them in his state. LINCOLN, Neb. — In the late 1970s, landowners looking to protect a ...

Editor's note: This is the second part of EarthBeat's special series "An Estate Plan for the Earth," about how women's religious communities are conserving their land for future generations. You can ...