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Natural Resources Law. Class #24 April 30, 2014. Assignments/Grades/Rewrites. NEPA Comment (25%): 90 average Water Negotiation (15%): 88 average Mineral Memo (10%): 79 average Rewrites possible for all three. You can receive ½ of the points remaining.
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Natural Resources Law Class #24 April 30, 2014
Assignments/Grades/Rewrites • NEPA Comment (25%): 90 average • Water Negotiation (15%): 88 average • Mineral Memo (10%): 79 average • Rewrites possible for all three. You can receive ½ of the points remaining. • Due by noon May 12th (hand delivered to me or Linda Kelly with previous version attached)
Land Conservation • Public • Fee Simple Landownership • Regulation • Private • Fee Simple Landownership • Servitudes • Conservation Easements • Other Market Mechanisms • Payment for ecosystem services • Conservation banks
Conservation Easement Basics • Property Law Refresher • Negative Rights • In Gross • Perpetual • State Statutes • Parties • Landowners • Holders: Governments and Land Trusts • Purposes
Agricultural Conservation Easement Purposes Environmental
Archaeological / Cultural Conservation Easements Historical / Architectural
Methods of Creation • Donation • Sales • Exactions • Condemnation • Judicial Actions
Who Benefits? • Non Urban • Those With Access • Taxpayers • Individuals • Who Decides? • On the Location • On the Rules • On the Enforcement
DENSELY WOODED PUBLIC LAND 10 acres Developed area: residential and farm Main Road