Landowners who devote a lifetime to caring for their wildlife habitat or improving their soils and farmland may wonder how to ensure their efforts can extend beyond their lifetime. Join Abbie Church, Mississippi Valley Conservancy (MVC) Conservation Director, to learn about permanent land protection through conservation easements with local land trust MVC.

Abbie will cover the fact and fiction around easement requirements; touch on local land-use trends; discuss conservation-easement benefits to wildlife, water quality, and soil conservation; and cover what the easement enrollment process entails. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear from a local landowner, Tom Lukens, about his personal experience working with MVC to protect his land along the West Fork of the Kickapoo River.