conservation easement
- A type of legal agreement between a landowner and a public or private organization (like a land trust), where the landowner accepts limits on how the land can be used (such as preventing development), and the organization commits to upholding these limits
- The farmer entered into a conservation easement to help preserve the natural landscape and prevent construction efforts on the land.
- By establishing a conservation easement, the property owners helped to protect the adjacent wildlife habitat.
- The local land trust oversees the conservation easement to ensure the stipulated land use restrictions are respected.
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