Farm groups who oppose permanent easements say forever is too long to commit to an easement. Conservationists who drew up the initial proposals say landowners want that choice. Gov. Tim Pawlenty ...

A contingent of Republicans from the prairie pothole region want to prohibit federal agencies from entering into permanent conservation easement agreements with landowners, putting an expiration date ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty has stressed the importance of using permanent easements in his proposed Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. I have some tough questions that nobody can seem to adequately ...

When New York State claimed a ‘permanent easement’ across the Nation’s Westwoods land, it could not do so, under federal law, ...

KALISPELL, Mont. - Monday night's work session left questions unanswered about what exactly should be done to buy the $2.27 permanent easement for Kidsports. One option is to use tax increment funds. ...

Few congressional districts are as endowed with the array of agriculture, forests, wildlife habitat, fresh lakes and wetlands as Rep. Collin Peterson’s vast 7th District of western Minnesota. Moderate ...

Sep. 13—Mower County has posted its record-high for acres — about 407 — signed up in one year for converting marginal cropland and floodplain to permanently restored native prairie and wetlands. About ...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but conservation easements are forever. That is the advantage and the disadvantage of conservation easements, according to Bob Paulson, director of The Nature ...

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — The Land Trust of the Eastern Panhandle has secured a permanent conservation easement on 31 acres near Shepherdstown, according to a community announcement. The property, owned ...

The Shinnecock Indian Nation on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Attorney General Letitia ...

The state’s highest court Friday left intact the city of Boston’s no-bid sale of a permanent easement on the former Yawkey Way to the Boston Red Sox for $7.34 million, a deal reached in 2013 after the ...