Private Land Conservation

Private land set aside for conservation grew to 37 million acres - an area larger than New England - between 2000 and 2005, according to a recent study by the Land Trust Alliance, a Washington-based umbrella group of local, state, and national land conservation groups. STORY

In an effort to save endangered shorelines, marshland and open terrain, private citizens are forming private trusts and conservation easements. Some do it for tax benefits, some for truly altruistic conservation principal. In either case, they're preserving valuable resources for future generations, obviously, a good thing.
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