YOLO LAND TRUST

Yolo Land Trust works to help landowners interested in preserving their property's resources through its most common tool: a conservation easement (CE). Conservation easements are voluntary agreements between a landowner and a nonprofit organization such as YLT in which the landowner agrees to restrict the use of the land to farming, ranching or habitat protection. The landowner continues to own, manage and operate the land, and pay property taxes, but the land must remain as a working farm. The agreement with YLT is recorded in the public records and the land use restrictions remain in effect in perpetuity. Yolo Land Trust acts as a steward, visiting the land once a year to ensure that the resource values remain the same over time. CEs can provide landowners with significant tax benefits, as well as peace of mind that their property will be preserved as they wish... The Yolo Land Trust has one simple and vital mission: to conserve agricultural land in Yolo County. Land conservation..

Also known as: The Yolo Land Trust

Primary location: Woodland United States