Conservation Tools

Advanced Seminar for Professionals and Landowners on Donated Conservation Easements

The Maryland Environmental Trust, the statewide land trust, is pleased to announce a full day seminar on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 focused on the legal and financial aspects of donated conservation easement featuring C. Timothy Lindstrom, Esq., a nationally renowned expert on the topic.

Mr. Lindstrom, author of A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements, is an attorney specializing in the federal tax law of conservation easements and land trusts. Mr. Lindstrom serves as legal counsel to easement donors and land trusts throughout the United States. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on the topic, and has played an instrumental role in the creation of additional statutory incentives for voluntary land conservation.

The seminar will be on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm; Coffee and lunch will be provided. This event will be held in the People’s Resource Center, Conference Room A, First Floor, 100 Community Place, Crownsville, Maryland. Online registration will be available in early February. Continuing education credits will also be available.

The seminar will include a session on IRS Requirements of Conservation Easement Appraisals by Terry R. Dunkin, MAI, CRE, CCIM, Managing Director and Julie Enger Associate Appraiser, both of Grubb & Ellis Landauer Valuation Advisory Services.

As a past President of the Appraisal Institute, Mr. Dunkin worked with the Land Trust Alliance and the IRS to create the “Valuation of Conservation Easements” course for appraisers. Mr. Dunkin has over thirty five years of real estate valuation and consulting experience. Prior to joining Grubb & Ellis Landauer, Mr. Dunkin spent twenty seven years as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Cassidy Turley’s (formerly Colliers Pinkard) Valuation Advisory Services Group. Julie Enger has been an associate appraiser with Terry Dunkin for the last seven years, specializing in conservation land and farmland appraisal work. Ms. Enger has done work for private landowners, land conservation organizations, county governments, the State of Maryland, and federal agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, the IRS and the Department of Justice.

Submitted by Nicole Faraguna