TAOS LAND TRUST'S COMPREHENSIVE CONSERVATION BOOK
FOR NORTHERN NEW MEXICO!

Ensuring a Land Legacy for Future Generations
Conservation Opportunities and Planning Tools for the
Future of Your Land and Your Community

A community forum sponsored by the Taos Land Trust,
with generous support from the McCune Charitable Foundation

January 31 and February 27, 2004

(Click on the links below to view sections or chapters one by one, or contact our office to order a complete hardcopy of the book for $10.00)

Publication Cover

Title Pages and Table of Contents

Foreword
Ernie Atencio

On Land, Water and Culture in Northern New Mexico
Keynote for Forum I
Palemon Martinez

Preserving Your Family Land and Family Wealth
The Wisdom of Estate Planning
Rick De Stefano

Land Conservation Tools
Conservation Easements and Other Flexible Approaches
to Accomplish Your Goals on Your Land
Ernie Atencio

Dealing with Rising Land Values
Property Tax Assessments and How to Establish and Maintain your Agricultural Exemption
Gerald Nichols

Keeping Water on the Land
Water Banking and Other Conservation Tools for Acequias
Geoff Bryce

Sustaining Land and Community Vitality
Using Modern Legal Strategies to Maintain Traditional Land Tenure
and the Wisdom of Traditional Settlement Patterns
Moises Gonzales

Additional Incentives for Land Conservation
Tax Credits under the New Mexico Land Conservation Incentives Act
Edward Archuleta

Financial Assistance to Keep Your Land in Agriculture
The USDA Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program
and other NRCS Programs to Conserve Private Land
David Manzanares

The Critical Importance of Water Resources in NM
Keynote for Forum II
State Senator Carlos Cisneros

Green Infrastructure Planning
Incorporating Farmland, Open Space and a Network of
Interlinking Natural Corridors into Long-Range Community Planning
Miguel Salinas

Economic Benefits of Conservation
The Connection Between Local Land Conservation and Economic Vitality
Bill Stevens

Who Pays?
Potentials for Financing Conservation Programs
Deborah Frey Love & Nissa Maddox

The Wisdom of Estate Planning and Conservation Easements
Benefits for the Land, Your Family, Your Community and Your Pocketbook
Leslee Petersen

Staying on the Land by Working It
Economic Vitality of Local Agriculture
Stanley Crawford

The Bigger Ecological Picture
Watershed and Forest Land Conservation Planning
Jan-Willem Jansens

Remembering our Predecessors
Preserving Historic lands, Trails and Communities of the Taos Area
Estevan Arellano