On June 26, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 799 (HB 799) into law. HB 799 allows property owners in Florida to create easements on their own land while retaining ownership of both the dominant and ...

Stuart M. Saft, a partner with Dewey & LeBoeuf, writes that Congress has provided the owners of real estate with the ability to donate the façade of a building that has historical significance; ...

Some opinion columnists have recently written about conservation easements in a less flattering light. As president and CEO of the North Florida Land Trust, I am delighted to respond and try to set ...

Before you buy land, know how electrical easements can impact your property. In this video, we cover what they are, why they ...

President Biden’s 2021 executive order supported the worldwide initiative (30x30) to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030. The effort would be collaborative, voluntary, and locally led.

Jessica Owley (Buffalo) has posted Changing Property in a Changing World: A Call for the End of Perpetual Conservation Easements, forthcoming in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. The abstract: ...

French novelist Emile Souvestre famously wrote in 1848 that “There is something more powerful than strength, than courage, than genius itself: it is the idea whose time has come.” It was later ...

In places like upstate New York where most land is in private hands, protecting the environment will take the efforts of many. View overlooking Fourth Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, July 2013.