Introduction and Overview Ensuring Compliance - Landowner Outreach and Monitoring

Easement Stewardship Context

Easement MonitoringLandowner RelationsBaseline DocumentationViolation ResolutionsAmendments Record Keeping

Stewardship Policies- Set the Stage

MRT Easement Policies Easement Amendments policyViolation Resolution policyRecordkeeping policy

Easement Monitoring

• Insuring compliance • Early detection • Landowner relationships• Reserved rights & approvals• Tracking outcomes

Review Easements for Resolution Tools

• Grantee’s Conditions of Approval • Mediation / Arbitration• Grantee’s Remedies

Build Strong Landowner Relations

•Check policies •Set up procedures•Establish a primary contact•Review your monitoring forms •Set the tone

Partnership/Problem-Solving Message or

Policing/Enforcement Message

Annual visit or Monitoring

Visit or Inspection

Follow-up or Enforcement

Resolution or Compliance

Checking or Policing

Conversation or Negotiation

Creative problem solving or Litigation

Upholding the conservation easement or

Conformance

Concerns or Violations

Questions or Concerns

Deter or Prevent

Identify or Detect

Scheduled or Assigned

Possible or Suspected

Set The Tone

Landowner Outreach - Partnering with Landowners

• Restoration partnerships • Membership events • Land Acquisitions celebrations • Easement tours • Easement landowner event or workshops

Easement Property Tours

Whiskey Creek Organic – Duncan Island

Prairie Tour

Land Acquisition Celebrations

Easement Landowner Events

Restoration Tours

Celebrate Your Successes

References

Land Trust Alliance, Land Trust Standards and Practices, Land Trust Alliance, revised 2004.

Bouplon, Renee J., and Benda Lind, Conservation Easement Stewardship, Land Trust Alliance, 2008.

Hugh Brown and Andrew Pitz, Caring for Land Trust Properties Land Trust Alliance, 2008.

http://tlc.lta.org/courses/conservation-easement-stewardship