[NatureNS] Easements

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From: Caitlin Porter <caitlinjmporter@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:21:58 -0300
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Hm, I'm not sure about whether individuals can do their own conservation
easement. I wonder if you would have to establish a trust, some community
groups have done this for one property or another, e.g. I know of several
individual properties in Ontario that have their own trust. I don't know
very much at all about how this works. It would be a good question for a
lawyer or maybe for an association of land trusts like they have in some
other provinces like BC or ON or eastern states in the US (example =3D OLTA=
:
http://olta.ca/)


On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:45 PM, John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca>
wrote:

> Thanks for this, Caitlin.  It clarifies a lot.
>
>
>
> Some years back, a landowner with a plot of land in two adjacent municipa=
l
> units (one a town) willed us a chunk of her land.  For legal reasons, we
> were not able to assume ownership, but I remember advising her heirs that
> *they* could take out a conservation easement on the land in question.
> Offered to help further and never heard back, but I am sure the offspring
> honoured their ma=E2=80=99s wishes to the best of their ability.
>
>
>
> My point (question?) is that if an owner wants to protect his or her land
> and if NSNT or the Nature Conservancy of Canada doesn=E2=80=99t take it, =
the owner
> can take steps to apply his or her own legal easements on the land (can=
=E2=80=99t
> he/she??).
>
>
>
> *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@
> chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of *Caitlin Porter
> *Sent:* July 26, 2017 11:49 AM
> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] A Hopeful Perspective on NS Forestry
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> One mechanism for protecting amazing forest parcels, eg. old growth
> forest, on your property is through a private land conservation
> organization. Those groups sometimes have the ability to help landowners
> protect their property through a conservation easement - that's a legal
> document that maintains conservation values on a property "in perpetuity"=
.
>
>
>
> Those charity groups who do this work have only a few staff on hand and
> limited resources. Putting a conservation easement on a property and
> maintaining that over time is a time consuming legal process that require=
s
> fairly substantial funding from the NGO to cover those legal fees, future
> monitoring of the lands, etc. That means these groups only have the abili=
ty
> to take on certain properties that they can get funding to take on. They
> usually have fairly strict criteria for being able to take on a property.
> Despite that, I'd encourage anyone with something exceptional on their
> lands that they'd like to see protected to contact an NGO such as the
> Nature Trust or the Nature Conservancy of Canada and explore what options
> might be possible. Just keep in mind that the funding might not be there
> and that the amazing folks who work for those NGOs are working really har=
d
> behind the scenes and so it may take some time for them to respond to you=
r
> calls or emails.
>
>
>
> Katie Porter
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:47 AM, John Kearney <
> john.kearney@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave and all,
>
> I agree that we need more alternatives for saving our patches of land for
> future generations.
>
> A number of years ago, on one my birding field trips, I came upon a
> 95-year old farmer working a small patch of land, surrounded by a mature
> Sugar Maple-Yellow Birch forest, in the high country of Pictou County wit=
h
> a beautiful view of the valley below. In the course of our conversation h=
e
> expressed cynacism about what his relatives would do with the land when h=
e
> passed away, and he lamented the fact that he knew of no way to ensure th=
e
> protection of his lifetime of work in caring for the land. Today that lan=
d
> is part of an industrial-scale wind energy facility. It makes me wonder
> what Nova Scotia would be or could be like if all these patches were
> preserved. The choice is not between progress and a romantic clinging to
> the past as some might argue. Rather it is I believe, a choice between
> seeing the land as a commodity for our personal use and profit, or as a
> heritage, a work of art even, that we have a collective responsibility to
> care for and enhance during the time we dwell on the land.
>
> John
>
>
>
> *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@
> chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of *David
> *Sent:* July-25-17 13:20
> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> *Cc:* David Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] A Hopeful Perspective on NS Forestry
>
>
>
> Hi John & All,
>
>     I suspect conservation, and nature worship, rank high in the minds of
> most private woodlot owners.
>
>     I was fully disgusted with NS Nature Trust when they sniffed 'We don'=
t
> protect that kind of woodland', when I made inquiries about protecting my
> woodlot permanently from residential/commercial development.
>
>     If you aim to protect 12% of an area then 78% is unprotected and what
> good is a pail if 78% of the bottom is missing ?
>
>     I never did read the second half of A Sand County Almanac, land ethic=
,
> because it was preachy and dry, but having read an old National Geographi=
c
> article about Leopold, I now realize he preached conservation as a way of
> managing all landscapes.
>
> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>
>
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
>
> From: "John Kearney" <john.kearney@ns.sympatico.ca>
>
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>
> Sent: 7/25/2017 12:09:33 PM
>
> Subject: [NatureNS] A Hopeful Perspective on NS Forestry
>
>
>
> School for Resource and Environmental Studies
>
> MES Thesis Defence
>
>
>
> GIFTS TO A FUTURE WORLD: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOODLAND OWNERS IN NOVA SCOTI=
A
>
>
>
> By Andrew W. Kekacs
>
>
>
> *Abstract:*
>
>
>
> Private, non-industrial woodland owners provide more than half of the
> timber used by Nova Scotia=E2=80=99s forest products industry. Research, =
however,
> suggests many of these owners do not consider income from timber sales to
> be their primary reason for owning woodland. This study aimed to reach a
> holistic understanding of their attitudes and motivations using walking
> interviews on the owners=E2=80=99 woodlands and a grounded theory approac=
h to
> analysis, in which explanations of the phenomena under study are induced
> from the data rather than being based on responses to survey questions or
> derived from a priori hypotheses. Forest landowners interviewed for t