21.   On one hand, farmers want to preserve their community, and conservation easements are an effective way to deflate land speculation.

22.   Owners who want to continue using their land can use conservation easements to ease tax burdens while protecting land from development.

23.   The company will place thousands of acres under conservation easements, and it will finance audits of its own environmental performance.

24.   The conservation easement would allow only grazing under strict federal supervision.

25.   The Desert Foothills Land Trust is hoping to get conservation easements along Cave Creek Wash, Executive Director Kim Scott said.

26.   The fee then goes into a fund to buy other tracts of habitat or to buy permanent conservation easements from private landowners.

27.   The group will give the state a conservation easement on that property.

28.   The hope is to find one purchaser who in turn will protect some of that land with a conservation easement.

29.   The Nature Conservancy is dedicated to preserving lands for plants and animals by the use of conservation easements that prohibit development.

30.   The Park Service wants to buy a conservation easement, preventing TDX and future landowners from building structures on the property.