Conservation Easements
What is a Conservation Easement?
A conservation easement in Florida is a voluntary legal agreement that allows landowners to preserve the natural resources on their property by restricting development and harmful activities while retaining ownership. Landowners can benefit from tax deductions, lower property taxes, and estate tax reductions, while ensuring that the land’s ecological value is protected permanently. The easement is tailored to the landowner’s goals, allowing sustainable activities like farming or ranching, and is monitored by a conservation organization to ensure compliance.
How do you make Florida Turkeys Come to Your Land?
Creating Turkey Habitat for your Forest
If you’re going to create habitat for turkeys in Florida you need to learn to think like a turkey. We made this video the the UF Game Lab and are here to share all the details of how to do it right...
Why you may or may not want to use fertilizer
Should you Fertilze Your Pine Trees
Should you fertilize the pine trees on a small plot of land in Florida? At first the question seems simple, since fertilizer gives trees the nutrients they need to grow...
From the Expert
Bugs on trees?
Do you want to protect your trees, but don’t know how? We interviewed entomologists at UF and FDACS about the Southern pine beetle prevention program...