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Trends in Easement Language and the Status of Current Monitoring on Working Forest Conservation Easements
A Master's Project completed for the School of Natural Resources & Environment,
Introduction
This study serves as a preliminary work toward gaining an understanding of working forest conservation easements (WFCEs) through a critical examination of two aspects of WFCEs that likely influence the effectiveness of this conservation tool: trends in easement language (from the years 1985 to 2003) and current monitoring methods. These two aspects are addressed in an easement comparison study and a monitoring survey study.
The easement comparison study identified purposes, restrictions, and forest management requirements of a national sample of WFCEs over 1,000 acres in size, and organized this data into relevant themes (water, technology and extraction, development, forest management, ecosystem and rare species, and recreation). For each theme easement language was examined to identify trends by region, easement holder, easement age, and easement size. Custom-designed surveys were developed based on the specific language in each easement. These surveys were administered to monitoring professionals for both publicly-held and privately-held easements, and provided insight on the diverse set of monitoring regimes in place for WFCEs across the country.
The surveys revealed that while the majority of WFCEs are monitored at some level, a range of methods
Final Report
Sections of the study report are available as individual PDFs:
The report is also available in a single document (note that this is a large file).
Project Team
Members of the WFCE project team - Adam Block, Kara Hartigan, Robert Heiser, Gregory Horner, Luke Lewandowski, Jason Mulvihill-Kuntz, and Stephen Thorn - at the interim presentation.
Contact Information
For more information about this project, please contact Steve Thorn at [email protected]
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