The Internal Revenue Service is continuing its yearslong campaign against some aggressive land-rights deals known as syndicated conservation easements. Here’s what it’s all about.

Featured image: Legal conservation easement boundary sign in Indiana protects agricultural land. 2024, (Photo courtesy U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service) ...

Consider safeguarding your land with a conservation easement through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Florida.

A ranch along Highway 200 in Potomac will remain open space after the Missoula County Commissioners approved spending almost $1 million to secure a conservation easement on the property. The Case ...

The new easement will create a block of 11,465 contiguous acres for wildlife to roam across. The headwaters of Tomales Creek, a tributary of Keys Creek, are located on the ranch near a historic ...

Boyer, who with his son raises a commercial red Angus cross there, said work began on the easement in 2003 or 2004. Since then, he's learned the land's deep conservation value for wildlife.

The resolution language says the town of Vail, “in anticipation of an open space fund contribution of $5 million at the April 8 meeting of the Eagle County Commissioners toward the purchase of the ...