Option

Incentivize conservation easements and working lands protection

Details

Focus of action
Working Lands
Option

Incentivize conservation easements and working lands protection

Focus of action
Working Lands

Examples from plans

This option appears in resilience plans from around the country.

Option from plan Hazards Sort descending Assets Region Source Plan
Encourage nonprofits to hold land conservation easements. Encourage them to use those easements in ways that help manage climate change impacts. Air QualityLandslidesMultiple or All HazardsShifting Species, Habitats, and EcosystemsWater QualityErosion and Shoreline RecessionFlooding – CoastalFlooding – General Water Infrastructure – WastewaterNatural Areas and Wildlife Southeast Planning for Climate Resilience—City of Asheville, North Carolina (p. 116)
Provide private landowners with incentives for forest protection through easements and working forests that can return revenue from timber harvesting to cover taxes and other expenses of maintaining forest Shifting Species, Habitats, and EcosystemsWildfire Agriculture and Food SupplyWater Infrastructure – WastewaterNatural Areas and WildlifeProperty Southwest Statewide Summary Report: California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
Provide private landowners with incentives for maintaining working forests that can return revenue from timber harvesting to cover taxes and other expenses of maintaining forest lands. This effort can Shifting Species, Habitats, and Ecosystems Agriculture and Food Supply Southwest Statewide Summary Report: California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment
Provide private landowners with incentives for forest protection through easements and working forests that can return revenue from timber harvesting to cover taxes and other expenses of maintaining forest Wildfire Natural Areas and Wildlife Southwest Statewide Summary Report: California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment