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Closing: Finalizing the Real Estate Transaction
<p>At closing, the transfer of the real estate interest, whether land, easement, or other interest, is completed. This guide helps users organize and expedite the closing. WeConservePA guide. 8 pag...
Stewardship Funding Arrangements: Supporting Easement Holders in Carrying out Their Conservation Duties
<p>A landowner may agree to an arrangement that requires the owner <i>or successive owners</i> of an eased property to make payments to the conservation easement holder to support stewardship of th...
Model Stewardship Funding Covenant with Commentary
<p>The Model Stewardship Funding Covenant is a tool for making funding arrangements for conservation easement stewardship that are both affordable to landowners and adequate to cover the ...
Legal Considerations for Stewardship Funding Arrangements: Binding Present and Future Landowners to Present Promises
<p>A landowner may agree to funding arrangements that require the landowner or successor owners of an eased property to make one or more payments to the easement holder to support stewardship of th...
Model Conservation Easement Donation Agreement with Commentary
<p>The Model Conservation Easement Donation Agreement helps land trusts avoid getting stuck with unreimbursed major expenses if a would-be easement donor walks away from a project. It outlines the ...
Adding to Land Under Conservation Easement
<p>A landowner has land under conservation easement and is ready to conserve more of their nearby property. How best to carry this out?</p>
Model Amendment of Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants
<p>If changes to a conservation easement granting document are necessary or desirable, the easement holder must decide whether to amend and restate the document in full or to amend without restatem...
Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants
<p>The Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants provides users with a state-of-the-art legal document together with an expansive commentary. Built on practitioner experienc...
Model Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants for Riparian Buffer Protection
<p>This model was crafted for the specific purpose of permanently protecting riparian buffers along waterways. The model is based on the 7th edition of the Model Grant of Conservation Easement and ...
Model Fishing Access Agreement and Commentary
<p>The hybrid easement document provides for both resource protection and public access for fishing. It is a tool for conservation organizations and governmental entities to build cooperative relat...
Model Grant of Access Easement for Environmental Stewardship with Commentary, 2nd edition
<p>This model legal document is used to ensure the easement holder's continued access to a property to undertake AMD remediation or other environmental restoration and stewardship projects. Be ...
Model Grant of Fishing and Boating Access Easement
<p>Use to provide public access to or along a waterway for fishing, boating or other recreational and educational uses. This model legal instrument may be used as a stand-alone document or may be c...
Model Grant of Trail Easement with Commentary: A Short Form Alternative to the Model Trail Easement Agreement
<p>The Model Grant of Trail Easement is brief--one page (exclusive of signatures)--as compared to the Model Trail Easement Agreement. The shorter document is useful where brevity is the paramount c...
Model Trail Easement Agreement with Commentary
<p>This widely used model is coupled with an expansive commentary that explains the reasoning behind every provision, instructs on applying the model to particular circumstances, and provides alter...
Model Trail License Agreement with Commentary
<p>A landowner may be sympathetic to a trail organization wanting to maintain a trail running through the landowner’s property. However, the landowner may rightfully have qualms about making ...
Model Assignment of Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants
<p>The Model Assignment of Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants with Commentary is a tool for transferring conservation easements and associated responsibilities, as well as ...
Model Consent, Non-Disturbance, and Subordination Agreement with Commentary, 2nd edition
<p>When a mortgage precedes an easement on a property, the possibility that one day the mortgage could be foreclosed poses a threat to the continued existence of the easement unless the holder of t...
Model Permission for Encroachment
<p>The Model Permission for Encroachment is a license agreement that allows an encroachment to continue until the owner withdraws permission. The model document also features owner protections from...
Model Release of Liability Form
<p>The risk of being held responsible for injuries or property damage associated with organizing volunteer, educational, recreational, and other events and activities (or opening up property for th...