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Community Heroes Create Conservation Easements

Preparing your taxes? Now is a great time to read up and talk to your lawyer, accountant, or tax-preparer about the tax benefits of selling or donating land to the Clinch-Powell RC&D or The Nature Conservancy or setting it up with a conservation easement to determine its future usage. As urban sprawl consumes more and more of our Tennessee family farms and idyllic landscapes, turning them into shopping strips and suburbs, if we don’t protect the land now, would we even recognize it if we could travel to the future and walk its acres? Who knows, someday our rolling grassy hills may be razed flat to make way for a shopping strip. A gentle spring once visited by all manner of wildlife may be buried by asphalt. Our mountainsides may be stripped and pillaged. And our once-clean river where we fished since we were a kids, like generations before, may have become a lifeless, undrinkable, sewage drain.Want to make sure the family farm stays a farm and doesn’t end up being a landfill EVER? The language of a conservation easement can leave that open to interpretation or may create a lock-solid legal mandate that can’t be negotiated by future developers, newcomers to the area, or government bureaucrats. With thoughtful, careful preparation, a conservation easement for your natural landscape is a legacy of healthy land that you leave not only for your children but also for your community. It’s literally, a gift that keeps on giving.