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Family Lands VLT’s efforts to conserve working farms, large managed timberlands and lands that are vital to local communities do not capture the full breadth of the important lands of the Vermont countryside. Many other properties epitomize the Vermont landscape, and these types of lands receive a majority of VLT’s attention each year. Using conservation easements, VLT conserves dozens of these important places each year. A conservation easement is a land deed that landowners use to voluntarily transfer development rights, as well as some related rights, to permanently conserve their property. These easements prohibit or carefully limit future development while allowing forestry, farming, recreational, and educational uses. To protect the long-term quality of forest land, the easement requires that a timber management plan, exist and be approved by the land trust. This requirement, and all other provisions of the easement, are permanent, binding all future owners. While the property can be sold just like other lands, whoever purchases the land will be buying a conserved property. More than 400 Vermont landowners have donated conservation easements to the VLT, conserving scenic and productive landscape. Below is information about VLT’s project selection guidelines, conservation easements and more. If you own land that you are considering conserving, the information below, in addition to a brief conversation with the VLT project staff in your area, can assist you in your thinking.
The following links provide information for you, if you are interested in conserving land that does not fall into this category:
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