Across rural America, a quiet reversal is taking shape. Instead of cashing out and carving up their holdings, more ranch ...

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 rural communities across the state, landscapes that were once wide and vast are becoming increasingly fragmented — subdivided and sold off by landowners hard-pressed by economic forces largely ...

It's a story you've probably heard: A family owned a cherished vacation retreat, where the kids spent summers and traditions were born. But when the property passed to the children, its value had ...

Morrill Farm completes conservation goals with sale of 193-acre easement to Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Landowners who to want preserve their agricultural land and prevent future development can consider granting a conservation easement. A conservation easement is the gifting of ...

The Missoula-based Vital Ground Foundation and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative - announced that they had ...

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 ...

The recent $10,000 fine levied against a Loveland appraiser accused of inflating the value of a conservation easement was a shockingly big penalty. But it’s the kind of message the state needs to send ...

An easement grants someone access to your property for practical purposes or for other reasons. For example, your neighbors may have access to a path on your property to get to the beach. While ...

Tony Caligiuri was ready for it to fall apart. Instead, the pandemic gave conservation in Colorado a boost. Soaring land values, spiking prices for water, legislation boosting incentives for ...