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Conservation Easements
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Land Use Prof Blog
Interdisciplinary Interactions
February has been a busy but exciting month for me. I have agreed to a few speaking engagement and have found all of them to be worthwhile and stimulating. I…
Land Use Prof Blog
Landowners Ignorant About Encumberances on Their Land
It is perhaps not surprising to many of us that landowners don't understand the encumberances on their land. If someone has never heard the term "conservation easement" before, it's not…
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Land Trust Sued Over Conservation Easement Enforcement (or lack thereof)
Those of us who study conservation easements don't have a wealth of case law to debate and scrutinize (query whether that is a bad or good thing). So perhaps it…
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Tax Breaks For Conservation Easements May Get Even Sweeter
As some of you may know, I am obsessed with intrigued by conservation easements. A strong motivator for some conservation easements (but not all or even necessarily most) is the…
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Recent Article Highlights Need to Think Comprehensively About Land Conservation
A new article in the journal Conservation Biology, highlights the need to shift our way of thinking about preservation sites. As I (and many others) have noted elsewhere, climatic changes…
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Junior Scholars
I just returned from the 2011 Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop at Albany Law School. This was a great event for junior scholars with a strong showing by…
Land Use Prof Blog
Land Use Prof? Who Me?
Many thanks to Matt for inviting me to participate this month and for his kind introduction. As regular reader of this blawg, I was delighted when Matt asked me to…
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Conservation Easements – The view from the other side
The common law has long encouraged the use and development of land.This policy favoring land use and development certainly made sense during America's infancy, when the country boasted seemingly inexhaustible…
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Owley on Conservation Easements
By propertyprof
Jessica Owley (Buffalo) has posted Changing Property in a Changing World: A Call for the End of Perpetual Conservation Easements (Stanford Environmental Law Journal) on SSRN Here's the abstract:Increasing environmental…
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Owley on Use of Conservation Easements by Local Governments
Jessica Owley (Buffalo) has posted another informative paper: Use of Conservation Easements by Local Governments, forthcoming in GREENING LOCAL GOVERNMENT, Patricia Salkin and Keith Hirokawa, eds., A.B.A. Publishing, 2011. The abstract:This…