Download:  Afoot in the Field, Volume 16, Issue 2 (PDF)

Published Summer 2025

FROM THE INTRODUCTION:

Conservation easements add a layer of complexity to the legal treatment of rights associated with real property. Rights to limit or eliminate development and various land uses, to protect conservation values, are enforceable by a Land Trust or municipality. Part of “protecting land” means monitoring and defending boundary lines and dealing with encroachments by neighbors. This is important because a neighbor’s use of land that doesn’t belong to them could violate a conservation easement or even threaten the legal ownership of the area land being used through a potential claim of “adverse possession.”

Download: Afoot in the Field, Volume 16, Issue 2 (PDF)

You can download Afoot in the Field, our biannual stewardship pamphlet for landowners, in PDF format.  See all issues here.