Conservation Easements & the Flint Hills... Part of the Plan?

[Patriot]

ACTION ALERT!! Flint Hills Kansas and Conservation Easements.
February 5, 2012 by nolathe

Conservation Easements are a Sustainable Development Land Grab
By Clarice Ryan

One of the prime targets of the Sustainability movement is the acquisition and control of private property of this country and the natural resources contained. The Conservation Easement provides the tools, techniques and motivations to legally wrest the land from its owners and transfer it to the federal government supposedly preserving it for future generations. Psychological and economic tactics being used are subtle with long-term objectives seldom identified by property owners. They are led to believe they are helping popular environmental efforts, while at the same time being provided personal financial benefits and security. Some are even awarded public recognition through the media for their noble, unselfish "contribution". Unknowingly they have essentially become victims of legalized fraud. They have enabling NGOs such as The Nature Conservancy to become wealthy in the billions while the land they have committed in perpetuity is doomed to Federal ownership.

Are you about to sign a conservation easement contract? Please hold off until you read this. Your signature will, in essence, split the estate on your property. You are releasing to a land trust, the controlled "use" of the land and development rights, while you retain title to the "land" and remain responsible for all costs of ownership . . FOREVER. It will be virtually impossible for you, your heirs or a purchaser, regardless of circumstance, to over-ride this contract agreement..

...By law the conservation easement can only be extinguished when the entity holding the easement (the land trust) becomes the full owner of the property, both the land and its controlled use. The friendly land trust will probably be happy to purchase your land at the greatly reduced value. However, once purchased and with the easement restriction removed this non-profit, non-taxpaying land trust it is legally free to resell at high market value of adjoining property. Or they can develop subdivisions; perform timber harvest, lumber mills, mining, oil drilling, and whatever. . . at a profit...

Full story:  http://nolathe.net/2012/02/05/action-alert-flint-hills-kansas-and-conservation-easements/

[redcliffsw]

Many folks got into this early, not knowing what it was.  No Consumer Protection on this stuff.

Looks like the Fed's and the Nature Conservancy are in cahoots to secure Conservation Easements
from landowners/farmers/ranchers.

Also, any foreclosure by the Fed's on loans for land will provide the Fed's an opportunity to reserve a
Conservation Easement if they sell the land.

More and more landowners are becoming alert to the ConservationEasements. 
Beware of the socialists who promote Conservation Easements and the Agenda 21.

Patriot, good post and thanks for keeping us alert.