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In the News
Articles about conservation and local land trusts.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-05-08-landconservation_N.htm Plummeting real estate values and demand for new housing are hammering developers but helping conservationists, enabling land trusts to buy thousands of acres that were slated for development and preserve them as open space.
 * Conservationists make the most of real estate crisis. USA Today. 2008 May 9.**

By Sarah G. McC. Moïse //Staff Writer//
 * Conservation easements create value for land developers **

There is growing interest in the development sector in learning how adding to the quality of life in the Lowcountry can also add dollars to the developer’s bottom line. “More developers are aware of the benefits of putting easements on property,” says Will Haynie, director of the Lowcountry Open Land Trust. “They get tax benefits and good public relations. And people are realizing when property is placed under conservation easement, the value of the adjacent property goes up, because the natural beauty and the vista is preserved.”

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