{"id":2018,"date":"2021-01-14T22:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2021-01-14T22:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:55:01","slug":"new-texas-am-study-benefits-of-conservation-easements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/new-texas-am-study-benefits-of-conservation-easements\/","title":{"rendered":"New Texas A&#038;M Study. Benefits of Conservation Easements."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Study authors: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nri.tamu.edu\/\">Texas A&amp;M Natural Resources Institute<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twri.tamu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Water Resources Institute<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/texaslandtrustcouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Land Trust Council<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s a conservation easement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>a voluntary agreement between a landowner and a qualified non-governmental organization or government entity<\/li><li>the landowner still owns the land<\/li><li>the landowner remains in charge of its day-to-day management<\/li><li>the landowner commits to minimize or avoid certain types of non-agricultural development on their property by selling or donating some property rights<\/li><li>The land trust or public entity holding the easement monitors the property to ensure the terms are upheld in perpetuity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How is value derived from these easements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$2.9 million in agricultural commodities.<\/li><li>$7.3 million in water replacement costs.<\/li><li>$170,400 in wildlife consumptive uses.<\/li><li>A 27:1 return on investment.<\/li><li>A 10:1 leveraging ratio.<\/li><li>A $148 avg. per acre state investment.<\/li><li>86% of projects were leveraged to get funding support beyond landowner contribution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.tamu.edu\/2021\/01\/12\/report-conservation-easements-yield-financial-ecological-benefits\/\">Texas A&amp;M Today | Report: Conservation Easements Yield Financial, Ecological Benefits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study authors: \u00a0Texas A&amp;M Natural Resources Institute,\u00a0Texas Water Resources Institute\u00a0and\u00a0Texas Land Trust Council What&#8217;s a conservation easement? a voluntary agreement between a landowner and a qualified non-governmental organization or government entity the landowner still owns the land the landowner remains in charge of its day-to-day management the landowner commits to minimize or avoid certain types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}