New Model Documents for Conservation Easement Administration

WeConservePA Legal Director Justin Hollinger offered a brief guided tour and answered questioned about the new model legal documents that joined the WeConservePA library (2025).

• The Model Compliance Statement that provides conservation easement holders with a well-considered way to provide sellers and buyers of eased land with reasonable assurance that the selling landowner is in good standing, without unreasonably compromising Holder’s enforcement rights.
  • Deeper reading: Estoppel Certificates, Compliance Statements, and Conservation Easements
• The Model Baseline Documentation Acknowledgement that optimizes the legal effect of baseline documentation by ensuring that all of its content is effectively identified and acknowledged.
  • Deeper reading: Baseline Documentation
• The Model Policy for Acting on Owner Requests for Review, Waiver, and Interpretation that provides a standard process to guide easement holders when called upon to exercise discretion.
  • Deeper reading: Acting on Owner Requests for Review, Waiver, and Interpretation Regarding Conservation Easements
• ​Model Correction to Grant of Conservation Easement and Declaration of Covenants
  • ​Deeper reading: Correcting Errors in Recorded Grants of Conservation Easement