How do you preserve significant parcels of open space in an era of rising land prices and shrinking public budgets? In the 1990s, more Bay Area land was protected using conservation easements, where the owner can stay on the land but gives up development rights, than by outright purchase. Though not without their critics, easements are reshaping the way we go about saving our local landscapes.
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January 01, 2006 by Darla Guenzler
California leads the nation in the number of land trusts, with over 150. Similar to their Bay Area counterparts, land …
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January 01, 2006 by John Hart
Along Tesla Avenue at the south edge of Livermore, rows of grapevines angle from the roadside, showing a trace of …
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January 01, 2006 by John Hart
From a modern house on a knoll in the Nicasio Valley, Randy Lafranchi, fifth-generation Marin County dairyman and second-generation easement …
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