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Land - Contact us in Eugene, Oregon, and speak with our conservation easement attorney to negotiate and draft conservation easements for the purchase of land.    

Speak with our nationally recognized conservation easement attorney to negotiate and draft conservation easements, land purchase and sale contracts,  conservation easement enforcement demands and other documents for land trusts and landowners.  View our constantly updated NewsFeed for breaking news concerning conservation easements and global warming and climate change.


Conservation Easements May be the Answer

 

Contact Conservation & Preservation Counsel and speak with CPC conservation easement attorney James L. Olmsted to negotiate and draft conservation easements for land trusts, landowners, land developers and government.  CPC can also assist land trusts in easement enforcement as well as with compliance with the new LTA Accreditations Policy and LTA Standards and Practices.  In addition to conservation easement related matters, CPC attorney Jim Olmsted also provides assistance to land trusts in fee title purchase transactions.  Conservation & Preservation Counsel can also assist in historic preservation, creation of carbon offsets and protection of Native American cultural resources.


Conservation Easements Are Needed Now More Than Ever!

Today, more than ever, our natural and agricultural landscapes are threatened by development pressure. As urban areas expand, developers look to less expensive rural and natural lands as future sites for residential and commercial development. Often these threatened natural areas are beautiful scenic landscapes treasured by the community.  Moreover, much natural land is able to sequester carbon.  Protecting such lands can help fight global warming.  The need for Conservation & Preservation Counsel's legal services is now greater than ever.  Contact CPC so that attorney Jim Olmsted can help you preserve precious natural, scenic, open space and recreational lands in perpetuity.  Jim Olmsted is licensed to practice law in the states of California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington and is also a nationally recognized conservation easement attorney.  CPC attorney Jim Olmsted will use his best efforts to accept clients in any of the fifty states in which he is qualified to practice law under that state's multi-jurisdictional practice of law rules.  Although the law is evolving, these rules generally allow the practice of law by out-of-state attorneys.  Whether this can be done in a particular state or a particular matter will have to be determined on a case-by-case basis.


Land - Contact us in Eugene, Oregon, and speak with our conservation easement attorney to negotiate and draft conservation easements for the purchase of land.

Environmental laws alone are not enough to protect quality natural areas and open spaces.  Conservation easements provide the ultimate legal protection for precious lands.  Contact Conservation & Preservation Counsel for drafting conservation easements in your state.  Conservation & Preservation Counsel can also assist in  conservation easement enforcement.

Land - Contact us in Eugene, Oregon, and speak with our conservation easement attorney to negotiate and draft conservation easements for the purchase of land.

CPC Drafts Conservation Easements

Even in the best of circumstances, protecting land through use of environmental laws can result in expensive, contentious, and time-consuming litigation. Fortunately, there are other tools in the land protection toolbox, namely the use of perpetual conservation easements and fee title acquisition. While Conservation & Preservation Counsel Jim Olmsted can assist clients in land use and environmental litigation, CPC's preferred area of practice is working with land trusts and landowners to develop and implement perpetual conservation easements and deed restrictions that protect our most precious lands in perpetuity.  For example, conservation easements can be used to protect natural habitats, wildlife, open spaces and scenic vistas.  Such transactions can result in win-win outcomes for land trusts, landowners and developers. 

Land - Contact us in Eugene, Oregon, and speak with our conservation easement attorney to negotiate and draft conservation easements for the purchase of land.

 Carbon Offset Marketing

Additionally, CPC's scope of representation has recently expanded to assisting land trusts and landowners develop and market carbon offsets to fight the effects of global warming and global climate change.  Carbon offsets can be achieved in many ways, from avoided deforestation to afforestation (planting trees). Jim also represents carbon aggregators who have purchased carbon offsets and seek a market in which to sell them. For an update on the national carbon market, view the home page of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).  For internet explanations of how the CCX and other carbon trading markets work, see these sites: "Carbon Primer: The Chicago Climate Exchange"; "Dow Jones CCX Emissions Indexes: Tracking and Trading in the Burgeoning 'Climate Industry'"; "How the Chicago Climate Exchange Works"; "How Carbon Trading Works"; "The California Climate Action Registry"; "The Climate Registry: A Sister Organization of the California Climate Action Registry".  For additional helpful information on carbon markets, see these sites: "The Carbon Neutral Company"; "COCO2: Making Websites Carbon Neutral".


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