Protect Your Land
Protect your land for you, your livelihood, your family, and for the future while maintaining private ownership and control.

Legacy Land Trust is here to help farmers, ranchers and smaller acreage landowners shape the future of their lands, help protect their livelihoods, and make sure the conservation values of the land are protected, no matter who owns the property. Many of today’s landowners in Colorado enjoy their land because of its natural conditions, whether to support wildlife, livestock, or grow crops. These are characteristics and life styles that many want to preserve and we can help you do that in ways that benefit you, your families, and all who live here.

Conservation agreements, called easements, can result in tax benefits and/or credits that can help assure your land will stay intact, and can help with your financial operations and goals. Values like rural character and integrity of the land are some of the things that conservation easements can help protect so you can have a say in what your land will look like in the future while reaping some financial benefits now.

Land conservation and protection can be ways to move toward a more secure future. In addition to knowing you have created a future legacy, there may be compensations in the form of tax credits that can be sold for cash, and other benefits that relate to estate and inheritance issues, tax planning, tax credits, health care planning, capital improvements and purchases, to name a few.

If you are looking for ways to expand your farm or ranch, or just want to protect your corner of the world, or if you need a plan to deal with inheritance tax, or want to know that your place can remain in your family and have a future as a working or natural landscape, we can help you examine the possible benefits a conservation easement can provide. Give us a call for a consultation. There is no charge.

“Putting a conservation easement on our ranch in 2008 with Legacy Land Trust was a very rewarding experience. The staff was really helpful and pointed us to all the specialists that we had to work with. They coordinated parts of the transaction that made it even easier to complete the project. The most important thing to our family was that we got portions of the ranch protected forever, and the folks at Legacy Land Trust understood what our goals were and helped us achieve them.” -Verl and Ann Brown, Owl Mountain Ranch