Land Protection: Tools & Techniques

Individuals and families own most of the undeveloped land in the eastern U.S. that we rely on to provide public benefits such as wildlife habitat, clean water, and carbon sequestration. Land protection tools offer these private landowners the opportunity to protect their land while meeting their other personal goals. When private lands are protected, we protect the many public values the land provides. This course will focus on permanent land protection tools and techniques to maintain the land in its natural state, policies that encourage land protection, landowner decisions about conserving their land, and maintaining the conservation values after the land has been protected.