Due to lack of funding, as of January 2025, the National Conservation Easement Database is no longer being actively updated and supported. For the latest conservation easement spatial data, or for information on how to share your easements data with your state data steward, please visit the USGS Protected Areas Database website.
Peer-reviewed literature and policy briefs on easements
Peer-reviewed literature
- Private organizations, public data: land trust choices about mapping conservation easements (Brief Description)
- Private organizations, public data: land trust choices about mapping conservation easements (Full Report)
- Public Access to U.S. Conservation Land Trust Properties: Results From a National Survey
- Factors Impacting Agricultural Landowners’ Willingness to Enter into Conservation Easements: A Case Study
- Willingness-to-sell conservation easements: A case study
Policy Briefs
Note: The opinions of the policy briefs may not reflect the opinions of the National Conservation Easement Database partner organizations.
- Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Restoring and Protecting Wetlands State Policy Options
National Conservation Easement Database in the news
2020
- Data for all? How information sharing could shift land conservation
- The Race for Nature: How Congress Can Help Farmers and Ranchers Save Their Lands and Survive the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis
- The Road to 30: Private Land Conservation
- High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States
- Climate Change Challenges for Land Conservation: Rethinking Conservation Easements, Strategies, and Tools
- Protecting endangered species in the USA requires both public and private land conservation