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Summary -- Introduction -- Past experience and plans for future action -- Legal problems in acquisition and enforcement -- Proposed enabling legislation and suggested scenic easement provisions -- Administrative problems and procedures -- Valuation problems and procedures -- Suggested research -- Appendices.
No recent happening in land conservation rivals the rapid expansion of conservation easements and the related growth in the number of land trusts over the past 15 years. Among the forces driving this phenomenon are tax and other public subsidies and the view that the conservation easement is a win-win strategy in land protection. The thesis of this policy focus report is that conservation easements are a valuable land protection tool, complementing regulation, land acquisition, and tax policies, but that reforms are needed in tax and other laws and conventions governing easements, lest we risk losing the public benefits for which the easements were established.