Saving the Ranch: Conservation Easement Design In The American West | 
 enlarge | Authors: Anthony Anella, John B. Wright
Publisher: Island Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.50
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 865047
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1559634731
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.76160978
EAN: 9781559634731
ASIN: 1559634731
Publication Date: November 3, 2004
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Product Description
With land values skyrocketing and cattle prices falling, ranchers across the American West are seeking to capitalize on a lifetime of stewardship. The solution for many comes in the form of a conservation easement-a voluntary legal agreement that permanently protects the conservation values of a property by limiting or restricting future development. Saving the Ranch is a concise and readable guide to conservation easements for ranchers, conservationists, and developers concerned with protecting the natural and scenic values of ranch lands in the western United States. The book shows how ranchers can reduce estate taxes, generate and shelter income, and combine land conservation with estate planning. Case studies explore how conservation easements have been used, helping readers to understand the variety of circumstanees under which easements can be effective. Throughout the book, photographs, maps, and illustrations bring to life the examples presented and the situations described. Saving the Ranch gives ranchers the information they need to continue their stewardship of natural resources while identifying and capturing the conservation value of their land.
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I recommend this book! January 31, 2006
D. VanAntwerp (Otsego, Michigan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a public official with the planning function, I recommend this book for anyone interested in preserving farm land, open space and rural character. The book focuses on western range lands, while I am located east of the Mississippi river, but I am able to use virtually all of the information. What a wonderful resource!
Unique, intelligent, practical, and handsome January 28, 2005
Nicholas S. Thompson (Massachusetts, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here in New Mexico you can see for 50 miles or more on a clear day-- and most of the days are clear. The views are astounding. But as somebody who has come to love these views in the few months that I have been here from Massachusetts, I am also aware how easily they can be spoiled: a powerline here, a radio tower there, a housing development thoughtlessly splayed out on a hillside can blight the views for hundreds of square miles around. With Edward Ranney's photographs, this book inspires us to protect the West's fabulous landscape and with Annella and Wright's text, it provides a practical step by step prescription for how to go about it. I particularly admire the case studies, where the reader gets to see how the principles have been put into practice and vulnerable western landscapes have been saved.
All the scenes are western, but the principles of land conservancy are the same whereever vacant land is threatened. Saving the Ranch ought to be on the shelf of every environmental activist who has looked at an inspiring rural landscape and asked him or herself, "I wonder how this land could be saved?"
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