Current Issue

Volume 74 Fall 2011 Number 4

Conservation Easements: New Perspectives in an Evolving World

James L. Olmsted
Special Editor

Foreword

James L. Olmsted i

Articles
Conservation Easement Reform: As Maine Goes Should The Nation Follow?

Jeff Pidot 1
Incentives for Conservation Easements: The Charitable Deduction or a Better Way

Daniel Halperin 29
The Invisible Forest: Conservation Easement Databases and the End of the Clandestine Conservation of Natural Lands

James L. Olmsted 51
Zoning for Conservation Easements

Jesse J. Richardson, Jr. & Amanda C. Bernard 83
Exploring Net Benefit Maximization: Conservation Easements and the Public-Private Interface

Julie Ann Gustanski & John B. Wright 109
Evaluating Conservation Effectiveness and Adaptation in Dynamic Landscapes

Adena R. Rissman 145
Conservation Easements as Tools to Achieve Regulatory Environmental Goals

Laurie A. Wayburn 175
Conservation Easements at the Climate Change Crossroads

Jessica Owley 199
A Tradable Conservation Easement For Vulnerable Conservation Objectives

W. William Weeks 229
Conservation Easements and Perpetuity: Till Legislation Do Us Part

Richard Brewer 249
Conservation Easements and the Doctrine Of Merger

Nancy A. McLaughlin 279