Open Space Preservation
Caring for Conservation Easements from Preservation to Stewardship
Land Stewardship for Municipalities
Conservation easements offer a major tool to protect important natural resources, particularly freshwater wetlands. Hired by North Jersey Resource Conservation and Development Council, ANJEC developed the Stewardship Resource CD which contains a wide range of information including articles by David Peifer, ANJEC Project Director, and James Wyse, Esq., of Herold and Haines, as well as key New Jersey legislation, approaches used by New Jersey Conservation Foundation and municipalities, brochures and excerpts from ANJEC’s Freshwater Wetlands Protection in New Jersey manual.
The Caring
for Conservation Easements brochure (
297kb) outlines the Stewardship Resource CD’s key resources.
If you’re interested in obtaining the full information on the CD,
the cost is $5 including shipping. Submit an
order and we’ll send you the Caring for Conservation Easements
CD and brochure.
Stewardship Resource CD Contents
LAND STEWARDSHIP FOR MUNICIPALITIES
David Peifer, Project Director, ANJEC
ABOUT EASEMENTS: Introduction to Conservation Easements
James Wyse, Esq.
- Initial Thoughts on Easements
(
59kb) - A Few Words about Tax Law
(
59kb) - About
the Easement Transfer Process (
77kb) - Easement Provisions in Brief
(
89kb) - Easement Law
CREATING AN INVENTORY OF YOUR TOWN’S EASEMENTS
- Create an Inventory - Conservation Easement Inventory and Baseline Inspection
- Sample-Chatham Township conservation easement map (
315kb)
ONCE THE TOWN HAS THE EASEMENT
- Importance of the Baseline Documentation
- Forms for Inspection and Monitoring
- Letters to Owners
- Mendham Twp. (Morris)
- Chester Twp. (Morris)
OBTAINING NEW EASEMENTS
- Development Review Process
- Site Plan & Subdivision Ordinances Requiring Easements
- Ordinances to Complement Wetlands Protection
- Municipal Action for the Environment
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)
- A two-sided brochure, to be folded in half - Cluster
- Franklin Twp. (Somerset)
- Readington Twp. (Hunterdon)
- Critical Areas Protection
- Alexandria Twp. (Hunterdon)
- Mendham Twp. (Morris)
- Stream Corridor Protection
- NJ DEP Easements
- Municipal Action for the Environment
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- Donations Using Planning Tools
- Easement Purchase
PUBLIC OUTREACH ABOUT EASEMENTS
- Municipal Fliers for Public Outreach
- Chatham Twp. (Morris) Flier
(
1.9mb) - Mendham Twp. (Morris)Brochure
(
219kb) -
a tri-fold brochure - Old Bridge (Middlesex) Flier
(
1.6mb) -
a four-fold brochure
- Chatham Twp. (Morris) Flier
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NJ WETLANDS PROTECTION
- Introduction to NJ Act
- Wetlands Regulations Summary
- Special Case - Vernal Habitat
- General Wetlands Education
- What are Wetlands?
(
156kb) - Test Your Wetlands IQ
- Wetlands and People
(
170kb) - Economic Benefits
(
282kb)
- What are Wetlands?
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RESOURCES TO HELP
- Land Trusts
- About Land Trusts
- List - National, state and regional land trusts
- Watershed Organizations - New Jersey Groups
- Funding - Opportunities
