11.   Davis would also require the utilities to grant the state conservation easements on land they own in environmentally sensitive areas in the Sierra Nevada watershed.

12.   In addition to money, the sale of conservation easements provides landowners with a way to protect their property, even with growing pressure to sell or develop it.

13.   In Colorado and Montana, the amount of land protected by conservation easements has doubled in the past five years.

14.   In return, he signs a conservation easement, held by the nine-member Malpai board of directors, prohibiting subdivision of his land in perpetuity.

15.   In the last decade, she granted conservation easements on her landmark house to the Historic Charleston Society and on most of the property to the Wetlands America Trust.

16.   It could be used to buy conservation easements, plant trees, rebuild culverts and stabilize stream banks.

17.   It will be used to buy conservation easements that protect farmland from encroaching urban development or to purchase water rights to protect struggling salmon runs.

18.   More and more, clients are asking Ms. Merrill about conservation easements, which are binding legal agreements that limit development.

19.   New York state will buy a conservation easement on that property, limiting logging and prohibiting development.

20.   Norquist also objects to conservation easements on grounds of social equity.