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Should I ask my Senators and Representatives to cosponsor legislation to make the new tax incentive permanent?

YES!

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The Senators and Representatives below have a lot of influence over conservation tax incentives.

Don't see your member of Congress? That's okay! Please still contact them anyway and ask them to support the legislation and become a cosponsor of the bill. If they do not know about your land trust or about land conservation, let them know!

Tell them:

• How important this tax incentive is to land conservation in your local community and to your conservation work.

• How the tax incentive helps the local family farmers, ranchers, and moderate-income level families protect their land.
  
  
• If any landowners in your area have donated a conservation easement in 2006 or 2007 and been able to take advantage of the new tax incentive, tell your members of Congress about them! If you have specific examples, that is even better!

• Tell them you look forward to working with them if they need any information about conservation easements or land conservation efforts in your local area.
  
  
• Ask them to cosponsor the bill to make this new incentive permanent.

 

Write or email them and encourage your peers to do the same! See a sample letter.

*Click on highlighted names to visit the Senators' and Representatives' website.

Send us a copy of your letter! We want to hear what you are trying to protect in your community.
E-mail: policy@lta.org