Publications

• Legacy Land Conservancy Journal
• Sign Up for eUpdate, the Conservancy’s monthly email news update
• Land Conservancy: Notes from the field, the Conservancy’s blog
• Protecting Your Land: How the Legacy Land Conservancy Can Help (2009) (pdf document)
• The Land and Lawyer Handbook:  A Practitioner’s Guide to Conservation Easements (1st edition, 2007).  191-page resource for attorneys and other professionals drafting or reviewing conservation easements. The Handbook includes pertinent Michigan laws and cases and selected Federal tax laws and regulations. It also provides a sample Conservation Easement Form Document, as well as updates on recent developments and trends in conservation easement law and legislation.  Published with generous support of the Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation and Malloy Incorporated.  For a free hard copy, contact us.
• Model Conservation Easement (Word document)
• Cost of Community Services Study (1996).  A PDF edition can be is available for download.
• Also available upon request: Stephen J. Small, Preserving Family Lands, Volumes I-III. Popular and detailed handbooks for landowners considering the tax implications of protecting their land.  Written by one of the top authorities in the field.  For more information about this publication, please visit the Preserving Family Lands website.