Inland Empire Action Coalition

Easement Stewardship

How does IEAC ensure that the conservation easement will stay in place forever?

  • IEAC completes a thorough baseline inventory which documents the conditions at the time of acquisition. This inventory provides a critical benchmark that can be used in the future to monitor and enforce the easement.
  • We create permanent, gps-located photopoints that are monitored yearly. On some projects, we also create in-depth vegetative surveys
  • We create a stewardship plan that exceeds Land Trust Alliance standards and identifies how and when communication with the landowner will take place, what monitoring is done and when, what happens if a violation is discovered, etc.

  • We establish a permanent stewardship endowment where the funds can be only used for monitoring, maintenance, and enforcement of the easement
  • We ensure that the easement is recorded on the deed and thus is transferrable to any other landowner if the property is sold
  • We ensure that a mechanism exists for a successor group or agency who shall continue to hold and enforce the easement should IEAC ever dissolve
  • We establish permanent boundary markers so that current and future landowners can easily see the boundary.  These markers are in addition to the legal survey that is recorded with the County

Photopoint monitoring of a permanent conservation easement