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Land trusts conserve California farmland

authors

Erik Vink, American Farmland Trust

publication information

California Agriculture 52(3):27-31. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v052n03p27. May-June 1998.

abstract

Communities can conserve farmland with land-use plans and zoning ordinances, but regulatory efforts are often transitory because future elected officials can revise them. To protect the land in the long term, agricultural land trusts work on a voluntary basis with individual landowners to acquire conservation easements that permanently restrict nonagricultural development of farmland. Farmers and ranchers are beginning to accept and support agricultural land trusts, which indicates that these trusts will continue to thrive.

author affiliations

E. Vink is California Field Director for American Farmland Trust, a national nonprofit farmland conservation organization. He is based in Davis.

References

American Farmland Trust. Risks, Challenges and Opportunities: Agriculture, Resources and Growth in a Changing Central Valley.. 1989. San Francisco, California.:

Coppock D, Ames L. Evaluation of Agricultural Land Trusts. California State Coastal Conservancy. Oakland, California 1989.

Diehl J, Barrett TS. The Conservation Easement Handbook.. Land Trust Exchange/Trust for Public Land, Alexandria, Virginia 1988.

Faber P. The Marin Agricultural Land Trust: A Case Study. 1997.

Land Trust Alliance. 1995 National Directory of Conservation Land Trusts. 1995. Washington, D.C.:


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