To ensure future compliance with the easement and to be able to gain a number of tax related benefits for it, the orginial owner may gift or sell the Conservation Easement to an appropriate private or public agency (eg., the Whitewater Valley Land Trust).
In turn, the Land Trust commits to moniter the use of that land in order to ensure its future uses comply with the specifications in the easement.
The Land Trust's agreement to take on such an easement will depend on whether the stipulations of the easement match its mission and priorities. Therefore, an agreement between the landowner and the Land Trust is reached by negotiation and can be completed when the intrests of both are met. In certain circumstances it may be appropriate for the landowner to pay the Lland Trust a negotiated, one-time per acre fee for the "in perpetuity" maintenance by the land trust of the conservation easement obligation the trust thereby assumes.
