Methods of Conservation
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Protecting Your Property with a Conservation Restriction
Learn about Conservation Restrictions, a method of protecting your land while maintaining ownership. |
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Agricultural Conservation Easements
An agricultural conservation easement (restriction) is used by a landowner to protect productive agricultural land. The fact sheet describes the benefits and drawbacks of these agreements. View at: www.farmlandinfo.org/agricultural-conservation-easements |
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MA Agricultural Preservation Restriction Program
This voluntary program is intended to offer a non-development alternative to farmers and other owners of "prime" and "state important" agricultural land as they decide the future use and disposition of their farms. View Program here: www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/agr/land-use/agricultural-preservation-restriction-program-apr.html |
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Conservation Restrictions: A Tool for Landowner and Community
A landowner's rights in land, and how a conservation restriction can protect land. |
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Conservation Gifts
All about donating land, or a conservation restriction on a piece of land, to a qualified land trust or governmental agency. |
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Bargain or Charitable Sales
All about selling land, or an interest in land such as a conservation restriction, for less than fair market value to a nonprofit land trust or government agency when the land is to be used for a public purpose such a conservation. |
