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In this online seminar, WeConservePA Director of Conservation Law Justin Hollinger will present a guided tour of the Model Conservation Easement Donation Agreement and review associated considerations.
Member organizations are requested to attend WeConservePA’s annual meeting of members. This event will be immediately followed by the WeConservePA Winter Lecture, Invasive Species From Field to Plate with Jonathan Darby of the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education.
This event immediately follows the 2025 WeConservePA meeting of members. You can attend one without the other. In any case, the same registration is used for both the annual meeting and winter lecture. As land stewards, we regularly find ourselves making decisions about subtracting or adding to local plant communities in service of a healthier […]
Join land conservation colleagues for a roundtable discussion of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit. The session (1) gives current users of the EITC space to share their experiences, challenges, and thoughts with other experienced users and (2) provides an educational opportunity for folks exploring the potential of EITC for their organizations. The EITC program awards […]
April 2-4, 2025
The administration and enforcement of conservation easements is costly — and perpetually so. Landowner contributions are a key strategy for funding a holder's easement obligations; however, achieving both affordability to the landowner and sufficiency for the land trust in a one-time contribution can be challenging if not impossible. A range of legal tools are available […]
Over the past few months, WeConservePA has offered for public comment a number of proposals for changes to the Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants. On June 10, Executive Director Andy Loza and Legal Director Justin Hollinger will walk people through the proposals. Ample time will be provided for people to comment […]
WeConservePA Legal Director Justin Hollinger will offer brief guided tours and answer questions about the new model legal documents that have joined the WeConservePA library in recent months. The Model Compliance Statement provides conservation easement holders with a well-considered way to provide sellers and buyers of eased land with reasonable assurance that the selling landowner […]
Join dozens of your colleagues involved in acquiring and stewarding land and conservation easements for robust discussions of a variety of matters relevant to you. As in the past, the agenda will be substantially shaped by you. You are strongly encouraged to suggest topics, concerns, and questions you would like to see addressed at the […]
Many landowners may be open to selling, bargain selling, or even donating their land to a conservation organization, but for one reason or another, not in the present. There is no need for a landowner-conservation organization conversation to stop there. A variety of legal tools—relatively painless to the landowner—can provide assurance that the organization will […]
