LandChoices interviews Tom Bailey about how conservation easements can reduce estate taxes on land you want to preserve and pass on to future generations. A conservation easement, a legal tool used to permanently protect land, can be used to lower or eliminate estate taxes on land. This is explained in this second in a series [...]
LandChoices interviews Tom Bailey, executive director of Little Traverse Conservancy. A conservation easement, a legal tool used to permanently protect land, is explained in this first in a series of videos on conservation easements. Stay tuned for more short videos in this series explaining how conservation easements preserve water quality and nature from LandChoices TV [...]
Bringing Nature Home is a book about backyard habitats that I plan to read. From the Timber Press website: “As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can [...]
Hear author Richard Louv lecture this Friday, November 13 at 7:30pm on the Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana. ACRES Land Trust is holding their Annual Meeting featuring a lecture with guest speaker Richard Louv, author of national best seller, Last Child in the Woods. Date Friday, November 13 Time 7:30 p.m. [...]
We asked LandChoices’ advisory group member and conservation developer Ed Noonan, “What advice do you have for planning departments?” Watch the video to hear his answer. Planners can use innovative conservation design for subdivisions to preserve water quality, natural areas, working farmland and wildlife. But they have to understand it first. Then they need to [...]
