Vermont Land Trust

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Vermont Land Trust

• Property Easements and Stewardship

Alex Ache PUB395 June 21st, 2003
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Topics

• Goals
• Background
• What Works
• What Doesnt Work
• Discussions
• Questions

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Goals
.to conserve land for the future of Vermont.
VLT does this by providing technical and legal
assistance to individuals, communities, and local
land trusts helping them achieve local
conservation objectives.  
The Conservation Stewardship office is
responsible for the long-term monitoring of
easements to ensure that the conservation goals
are upheld in perpetuity.
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Background

• Established 1977 by Richard Carbon
• Primarily focus working the landscape
• Frustrations with planning process
• Regulation is at best an orderly retreat.
• Currently the focus is on working farms
• Most successful US state land trust
• Protection of 7 of VT
• 6,000 members
• 501-C3 NGO

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Background
State
Fed
Private
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What Works

• Operating In Vermont
• Reputation
• Non Subsidizing
• Broad scope
• Appeal to human habitat
• Legal precedence
• Publications
• Scattered approach
• Tax Breaks
• Coupling Approach

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What Doesnt Work

• Operating outside of VT
• Specification
• Narrow Focus
• Choosing sides
• No publicizing
• Not purchasing lands

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Discussions

• Motives for farmers
• Private Zoning
• Egoist Approach
• Diverse Public vs. Single Regulatory
• Stopping the clock
• Hamlets of England

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Questions?