LandChoices: Preserving Your Land

Land Choices: Changing Development in America

You Can Preserve Your Land

Do you own land that you enjoy and would like to see remain free from development--forever?

Doing nothing to protect it may doom your land to development.

If you sell your land, future owners may sell it for development. And federal estate taxes can be as high as 50% of a property's fair market value, virtually forcing heirs to sell it.

One Page Fact Sheet
Land Protection Options for Landowners (PDF)

One Page Fact Sheet
Land Preservation Agreement (conservation easement) PDF

Frequently Asked Questions
Preserve Your Land FAQ's

New Tax Incentives Extended!
Congress extends incentives for landowners retroactive to January 1, 2008, good through December 31, 2009:
Tax incentives for conservation easement donors (PDF)

Steps to Protecting Your Land
Steps to donating a land preservation agreement (conservation easement)

More Fact Sheets (from Land Trust Alliance website)

For future generations...

Donate today to help
us assist landowners!

Reduce Estate Taxes
New Estate Tax options

Resources
More Options (takes you to Land Trust Alliance website)
Land Donations, Bargain Sales, Resale of Land, Donation with Lifetime Income, and more

Books
"Preserving Family Lands" at Steve Small's website

"Conservation Design for Subdivisions" at
Randall Arendt's website

Find a Land Conservancy near you
Visit the Land Trust Alliance website to find a land trust