Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-538) and index.

Protecting the land: conservation easements, voluntary actions, and private lands / Julie Ann Gustanski -- A holistic examination of the law of conservation easements / Todd D. Mayo -- An obscure tax code provision takes private land protection into the twenty-first century / Stephen J. Small -- Introduction to legal analysis / Roderick H. Squires -- Conservation easements in the first and second federal circuits / Karin Marchetti and Jerry Cosgrove -- Conservation easements to protect historic viewsheds: a case study of the Olana viewshed in New York's Hudson River valley / Seth McKee -- A limited development and conservation success story / Leslie Reed-Evans -- Conservation easements in the third federal circuit / Melanie Pallone -- Enforcement problems with successor grantors / Dennis G. Collins -- Saving agricultural land with conservation easements in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania / Tom Daniels -- Conservation easements in the fourth federal circuit / T. Heyward Carter, Jr., W. Leighton Lord III, and Chalmers W. Poston Jr. -- Applicability of South Carolina's conservation easement legislation to implementation of landscape conservation in the ACE basin / Sharon E. Richardson -- Use of conservation easements to protect the scenic and natural character of the Blue Ridge Parkway: a case study / Charles E. Roe -- Grannybelle Woods Conservation Easement / Randolph Y. Brown -- Conservation easements in the fifth and eleventh federal circuits / Beth Davis ... {et al.} -- Acacia protecting Texas hill country / David Bezanson -- Conservation easements in the sixth federal circuit / John F. Rohe -- Mackinaw headlands: a model in public-private partnerships / Linda J. Mead -- Conservation easements in the seventh and eighth federal circuits / Brian Ohm ... {et al.} -- A farm and river greenway on the St. Croix river: Standing Cedars Community Land Conservancy and Wisconsin farmland conservancy / Tom Quinn -- Easements and public access in the Ice Age National Scenic Trail / Christine Thisted -- Conservation easements in the ninth federal circuit / William T. Hutton, supervising author -- The power of conservation easements protecting agricultural land in Montana / John B. Wright -- Saving special places: how a land trust used emerging technology to address conservation priorities / Brian Stark -- Neighborhood conservation easements at Entrance Mountain on Orcas Island in Washington State / Robert Myhr -- Conservation easements in the tenth federal circuit / Heidi A. Anderson ... {et al.} -- The Santa Fe Conservation Trust: protecting northern New Mexico's complex land tenure patterns / John B. Wright -- Land trusts and conservation decision making: the integrated land conservation decision-support model / Julie Anne Gustanski -- Reflections on patterns and prospects of conservation easement use / John B. Wright.