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Conservation Easements: Now More Than Ever - Overcoming Obstacles to Protect Private Lands

This article discusses the history of conservation easements up to the present, and analyzes several barriers preventing even broader use of this valuable private land protection instrument. It alerts landowners and easement holders to several legal and policy concerns creating barriers to the effectiveness and appeal of conservation easements and investigates available and potential resolutions to these concerns.