The Land Trust Alliance: Call for Tax Incentive Success Stories Form

Call for Tax Incentive Success Stories Form

If you have more than one incentive conservation success story to share – and we hope you do – please use this form to describe your one great story. Then, answer Question # 21 and someone from the Land Trust Alliance will contact you right away.

Contact Information:

1. Name

2. Position

3. Organization

4. City

5. State

6. Phone

7. E-mail Address

The Incentive & Your Organization:

8. Has the newly expanded federal tax incentive for donating conservation easements influenced landowners to donate an easement to your land trust?
Yes
No

9. If Yes, please elaborate (types of landowners – new, those whom you’ve cultivated for years and the incentive motivated to act now, farmers or ranchers, etc.)

10. How has the incentive affected your land trust and its work? (amount and types of new acres conserved; outreach to landowners, new constituents and/or general public to increase land conservation; other)

11. How could your land trust and your community benefit if the incentive was made permanent?

12. Do you have any examples from the past of how the incentive could have helped protect land that is now lost?

13. Do you have any other information you’d like to include?

Incentive Conservation Success Story Information:

14. Name & location of the conserved land:

15. Briefly describe the transaction, especially the conserved land and the landowner. Include the public benefit(s), key transaction info (e.g., donation or bargain sale; closing date), importance to your conservation priorities, and the landowner (e.g., farmer or rancher; other).

16. What does the landowner have to say about their land, the transaction, the incentive and your land trust? What motivated their decision?

17. We may need to speak to you and the landowner for more information. If appropriate, please provide the landowner’s name, phone and email.

Landowner(s) name:
Phone:
E-mail:

I prefer to be the liaison with the landowner. Please have someone from the Land Trust Alliance contact me directly.

18. Do you have photographs of the land and/or landowner to include with this story? If so, please indicate how many below, name of the conserved land as reference and send high resolution copies (jpeg’s) of the photos to fdalleo@lta.org.

# of photographs:
Name of the Conserved Land:

19. Has this success story been covered by your local media? If so, please e-mail story (pdf or word doc) and/or indicate media, article name and date published. If weblink available, please attach.

20. Has your Congressional delegation been told of this transaction?
Yes
No

21. Does your land trust have additional stories to share?
We have additional stories to share. Please contact me right away.
We don’t have extra stories … yet.