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 Agricultural Tax Valuation for Wildlife - Native Plants Management

   
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Grazing Management for the Future
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For BLM field staff, building and maintaining long-term relationships is a key ingredient when collaborating with operators to renew their grazing authorizations. This video features the voices of BLM employees speaking to their experiences working with Outcome-Based Grazing Authorizations, which enable ranch managers to respond to changing conditions, as needed.

 

Grazing Management for the Future
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For BLM field staff, building and maintaining long-term relationships is a key ingredient when collaborating with operators to renew their grazing authorizations.

 

Wildlife Management as Agricultural Use for Property Tax Valuation in Texas
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Texas is known for its natural resources ranging from grasslands in the north, brushlands in the south, the piney woods in the east and the Chihuahuan desert in the west.

 

 Appraisal Districts

   
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There are 76 resources serving South Texas Plains Region in the following categories:
map itMap of Appraisal Districts Organizations & Professionals serving South Texas Plains Region
Certified Appraisers
Aaron D. Bierschwale, ARA
Bierschwale Land Company, LLC - Owner, Real Estate Appraiser - Junction, TX
American Forest Management
- Charlotte, NC
Blair T. Stouffer & Assoc., Inc
Robert V. Hicks, MAI - Boerne, TX
Bradley Bujan
CBRE - San Antonio, TX
Bryan S. Miller, MAI, CCIM
National Appraisal Partners, LLP - Houston, TX
Byron K. Setser, MAI
Southwest Appraisal Group, LLC - San Antonio, TX
Christopher E. Adams
Vision Forestry, LLC - Owner/President - Lufkin, TX
Christopher J. Stallings, MAI
- Houston, TX
Clinton J. (Clint) Bendele, ARA, MAI
Valbridge Property Advisors I San Antonio - San Antonio, TX
David Maxwell, ARA
- Devine, TX
Derry Gardner
Gardner Appraisal Group - San Antonio, TX
Derry T. Gardner
Gardner Appraisal Group, Inc. - San Antonio, TX
Hall and Hall
- Billings, MT
Jeffrey W. Briggs, MAI
- Dallas, TX
Jessica Putz
Capital Farm Credit - Jourdanton, TX
Jim Pat Mitchell, MAI
- Austin, TX
Jim W. Shepperd, MAI
Advanced Appraisal Group - Houston, TX
Joe W. Milkes, MAI CCIM
Milkes Realty Valuation - Owner - Plano, TX
John C. Hodges, ARA
John Hodges RE Appraisals - Uvalde, TX
John P. (Tooter) Robertson, Jr., ARA
Valbridge Property Advisors | San Antonio - San Antonio, TX
John W. Schmedemann
The Frost National Bank - San Antonio, TX
Justin Bierschwale, ARA
Bierschwale Land Company, LLC - Owner, Real Estate Appraiser - Junction, TX
Karl F. Armstead, ARA
Omega Properties - Fort Stockton, TX
Kyle Schroeder, ARA
Valbridge Property Advisors I San Antonio - San Antonio, TX
L. Sam Middleton, ARA
Chas S. Middleton and Son - Appraiser, Manager - Lubbock, TX
Lannie B. Philley, AFM
Delta Land & Farm Mgmt Co, LLC - Appraiser, Manager - Mer Rouge, LA
Marty Bryant, MAI
Southwest Appraisal Group, LLC - San Antonio, TX
Mason, Bruce & Girard
- Blacksburg, VA
Merrill E. Swanson, ARA
Valbridge Property Advisors/Dugger, Canaday, Grafe, Inc. - Senior Managing Director - San Antonio, TX
Michael L. Kersten
Capital Farm Credit - San Antonio, TX
Nittler Appraisal and Consulting
David Nittler, MAI - Texas Certified General Real Estate Appraiser - Harlingen, TX
Paul E. Bierschwale, ARA
Bierschwale Land Company, LLC - Owner, Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Broker, Consultant - Junction, TX
Philip A. Sadler
ESO Real Estate Services - San Antonio, TX
Philip D. Bailey, MAI
Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc. - Senior Appraiser, Eastern US & International - Blacksburg, VA
Ricky ONeill
Neeley Forestry Service, Inc. - Certified Wildlife Biologist and Certified Forester - Camden, AR
Rudy R. Robinson, III, MAI
- Austin, TX
Ryan C. Healy, ARA
- San Antonio, TX
Samuel Noble, CRE
Noble & Associates, Inc. - San Antonio, TX
Scruggs Love
Love & Associates - Hondo, TX
Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc.
- Bainbridge, GA
Stacy W. Jackson
Jackson Real Estate Professionals, LLC - Owner - Winnsboro, TX
Steven J. Bilicek
Texas Ag Realty - Houston , TX
Warren E. Peters
Peters Forest Resources, Inc. - President - Baton Rouge, LA
William R. (Bill) Schott, AFM, ARA
Schott Consulting And Appraisal - San Antonio, TX
Texas Appraisal Districts
Atascosa County Appraisal District
Ms. Michelle L. Berdeaux - Chief Appraiser - Pleasanton, TX
Bee County Appraisal District
Richard Petree, Interim - Chief Appraiser - Beeville, TX
Bexar County Appraisal District
Mr. Michael Amezquita - Chief Appraiser - San Antonio, TX
Brooks County Appraisal District
Mr. Daniel Garcia - Chief Appraiser - Falfurrias, TX
Cameron County Appraisal District
Mr. Richard Molina - Chief Appraiser - San Benito, TX
Dimmit County Appraisal District
Ms. Norma Carrillo - Chief Appraiser - Carrizo Springs, TX
Duval County Appraisal District
Mr. Raul Garcia - Chief Appraiser - San Diego, TX
Frio County Appraisal District
Edward Garza - Chief Appraiser - Pearsall, TX
Goliad County Appraisal District
Mr. Robert Ckodre - Chief Appraiser - Goliad, TX
Hidalgo County Appraisal District
Mr. Rolando Garza - Chief Appraiser - Edinburg, TX
Jim Hogg County Appraisal District
Mr. Jorge Arellano - Chief Appraiser - Hebbronville, TX
Jim Wells County Appraisal District
Mr. J. Sidney Vela - Chief Appraiser - Alice, TX
Karnes County Appraisal District
Mr. Brian Stahl - Chief Appraiser - Karnes City, TX
Kenedy County Appraisal District
Mr. Thomas G. Denney - Chief Appraiser - Sarita, TX
Kinney County Appraisal District
Todd Tate - Chief Appraiser - Brackettville, TX
Kleberg County Appraisal District
Ms. Tina Flores - Chief Appraiser - Kingsville, TX
La Salle County Appraisal District
- Cotulla, TX
Live Oak County Appraisal District
Irene Gonzales - Chief Appraiser - George West, TX
Maverick County Appraisal District
Ms. Maggie Duran - Chief Appraiser - Eagle Pass, TX
McMullen County Appraisal District
Mr. Blaine Patterson - Chief Appraiser - Tilden, TX
Medina County Appraisal District
Ms. Johnette Dixon - Chief Appraiser - Hondo, TX
Nueces County Appraisal District
Mr. Ramiro Canales - Chief Appraiser - Corpus Christi, TX
Refugio County Appraisal District
Phillip Gonzales - Chief Appraiser - Refugio, TX
San Patricio County Appraisal District
Mr. Robert Cenci - Chief Appraiser - Sinton, TX
Starr County Appraisal District
Ms. Rosalva Guerra - Chief Appraiser - Rio Grande City, TX
Uvalde County Appraisal District
Mr. Roberto Valdez - Chief Appraiser - Uvalde, TX
Val Verde County Appraisal District
Jacqueline Casanova - Chief Appraiser - Del Rio, TX
Webb County Appraisal District
Bobby Peregoy - Chief Appraiser - Laredo, TX
Willacy County Appraisal District
Mr. Agustin Lopez - Chief Appraiser - Raymondville, TX
Wilson County Appraisal District
Ms. Jennifer Coldewey - Chief Appraiser - Floresville, TX
Zapata County Appraisal District
Ms. Amada Gonzalez - Chief Appraiser - Zapata, TX
Zavala County Appraisal District
Ms. Yolanda Lavenant - Chief Appraiser - Crystal City, TX

 Conservation Easements

   
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Private lands are the next battleground in state conservation policy
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Interest from owners wanting to set aside their property for conservation has increased in the past few years. Many conservation land trusts that have seen a spike in interest over the past few years.

 

Working Lands For Wildlife
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Through Working Lands for Wildlife —a voluntary, incentive-based effort—the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its conservation partners will provide landowners with technical and financial assistance to: Restore populations of declining wildlife species.

 

Cattlemen’s Land Trust at the Forefront of Conservation
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Watch and listen to an on-the-ground panel of experts talk about the relationship of how ranchers and conservationists work together provides successful conservation outcomes while keeping working lands working.

 

Meet Chad Ellis CEO of the Texas Agricultural Land Trust
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Chad introduces us to the conservation ethic and DNA of Texas ranchers and reviews the past and future TALT conservation easements.

 

Beyond Easements: Broader Approaches for Greater Conservation Outcomes
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CONSERVATION EASEMENTS CAN PROTECT thousands of acres of valuable and vulnerable lands from development. However, why stop there?  ...

 

Donate a conservation easement: How federal benefits put money in your pocket!
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In addition to the Colorado credit, landowners can receive an extra reward for conserving their land with a conservation easement. The current rules are not yet permanent, so please keep that in mind as you and your advisors make plans for your taxes.

 

A step-by-step guide to donating a conservation easement
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This guide is meant to help you understand the steps that must be completed to conserve your property and the typical costs that are involved.

 

A fierce, expensive fight erupts over conservation easements
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An ongoing fight over tax breaks for conserving privately owned land — and accusations that some people are using them as a tax shelter — is spurring an expensive lobbying battle involving landowners and conservationists.

 

Final Rule on SALT and State Tax Credit Programs
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The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service pre-released the final rule on how the federal government will treat charitable donations that individual taxpayers make to nonprofits via giving programs incentivized by state and local tax (SALT) credits.

 

Enforcing Perpetual Conservation Easements Against Third-Party Violators
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Among the most daunting challenges the holder of a perpetual conservation easement faces is the enforcement of the easements it holds, for all time, and against all violators.& ...

 

Amending or Terminating Conservation Easements: The New Hampshire Experience
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Since their release in 2010, the Guidelines have been useful to the land trust community and to the New Hampshire Attorney General in facilitating a thorough and efficient review of proposed amendments to, as well as partial extinguishments of, conservation easements.

 

Understanding When Perpetual Is Not Forever: An Update To The Challenge Of Changing Conditions, Amendment, And Termination Of Perpetual Conservation Easements, And Response To Ann Taylor Schwing
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Rarely in the legal discourse is an author afforded the opportunity to revisit and update a recently published law review article and to correct misunderstandings of a response thereto.

 

Perpetuity is Forever, Almost Always: Why It Is Wrong To Promote Amendment and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements
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When a landowner makes a charitable gift of a conservation easement to a nonprofit organization or government entity and elects to seek a federal tax deduction, both landowner and easement holder are subject to federal tax laws and regulations governing the creation, monitoring, amendment, and extinguishment of the easement.

 

Conservation Easement Reform: As Maine Goes Should the Nation Follow
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This article explores how the Reform Law has worked and whether it makes sense as a model for other states in response to weaknesses in their enabling laws.

 

Use of Conservation Easements in Estate and Conservation Planning
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Under many circumstances, the donation of a conservation easement or sale of such easement for less than fair market value may give income tax, estate tax, and real property tax benefits to the donor or seller.

 

Leaving a Legacy of Land
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Protecting private lands that provide significant natural resource or cultural values is often a capstone objective for landowners, managers, and conservationists.

 

Conservation Almanac

The Trust for Public Land has created the Conservation Almanac, which is a great resource for understanding the context of the conservation and conservation finance movements. Here you can see how much land has been protected in your state, which state and federal agencies have protected the land, the ratio of money spent to land conserved, and policies and programs that could help your state reach its conservation objectives.

 

How a Conservation Easement Works - Sample example of conservation easement

A simple example illustrates how a conservation easement works in practice. Let’s assume pressure from buyers building vacation homes has pushed the value of land up in recent years to the point where the family is concerned about how the next generation will pay the estate tax bill without selling the land.

 

Land Preservation - An Essential Ingredient in Smart Growth
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The preservation of land for working rural landscapes, wildlife habitat, urban parks, recreational trails, and protecting water supplies and floodplains is emerging as an integral component of smart growth programs.

 

6 Basic Steps to Conveying a Conservation Easement
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How does one go about donating or selling a conservation easement.? There is no one right way to go about it. However, the following outline shows the most common steps to the process.

 

The Law of Agricultural Land Preservation in the United States
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Thomas Daniels and John Keene's new book breaks down the legal principles, federal and state requirements, and the legal issues that affect agricultural land preservation efforts.

 

Find a Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCCs)

Find an LCC here. The 22 LCCs collectively form a network of resource managers and scientists who share a common need for scientific information and interest in conservation. Each LCC brings together federal, state, and local governments along with Tribes and First Nations, non-governmental organizations, universities, and interested public and private organizations. Our partners work collaboratively to identify best practices, connect efforts, identify science gaps, and avoid duplication through conservation planning and design. 

Managing the landscapes that provide our natural and cultural resources has become increasingly challenging. With the signing of Secretarial Order No. 3289, the Department of the Interior launched the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) to better integrate science and management to address climate change and other landscape scale issues. By building a network that is holistic, collaborative, adaptive, and grounded in science, LCCs are working to ensure the sustainability of our economy, land, water, wildlife, and cultural resources. 

 

Using the Conservation Tax Incentive
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This short brochure summarizes the conservation easement tax incentive and provides answers to some frequently asked questions. For the late ...

 

Conservation Easements
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One tool for estate planners is the conservation easement, by which a landowner voluntarily restricts his or her land from being developed, restricts the amount of development or protects existing features, like a building facade with historic value.

 

Conservation Easements - How Flexible Is Too Flexible?

To ensure the continued conservation of natural resources and habitats, it is important to ensure that easements are not simply undone by successors to the original parties after the tax benefits have been realized.& ...

 

Mitigation and Conservation Banking
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To many landowners a threatened or endangered (T&E) species on their property is anathema because it can herald all kinds of state and federal limitations on use of their property.& ...

 

2015 National Land Trust Census Report

 

Conservation Easements - A Tool for Preventing the Fragmentation of Family Lands
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Land stewards can use conservation easements to help manage the future. Conservation easements can be created to protect different natural assets ranging from endangered species and water sources to productive, open space and agricultural land.

 

Uniform Conservation Easement Act Summary
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Although traditional uses of land for industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural purposes have continued, conservation and historic preservation have become important as well.

 

Private Lands Public Benefits - Incentives For The Stewardship Of Texas Agricultural Lands
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This guide is for Texans who want to ensure a future for the state’s farms and ranches: landowners who want to conserve, protect and steward their land and its resources; policymakers concerned about the costs to the state of the loss of rural lands; and all Texans who value the many benefits provided by working farms and ranches.

 

Conservation Easements - A Guide for Texas Landowners, 2013
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This guidebook is intended to help Texas landowners understand one of the most flexible and effective mechanisms available to conserve and protect private property – the conservation easement.

 

Wetlands Assistance Guide for Landowners
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The State recognizes that private landowners are stewards of a natural resource in which many of the benefits are accrued to the public. Ninety-seven percent of Texas’ land is privately owned and managed, and as such, management decisions on these lands are made by private landowners.

 

Ranching as a Conservation Strategy - Can Old Ranchers Save the New West?
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Working ranches are often promoted as means of private rangeland conservation because they can safeguard ecosystem services, protect open space, and maintain traditional ranching culture.

 

Uniform Conservation Easement Act (with 2007 Amendments)
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The Act enables durable restrictions and affirmative obligations to be attached to real property to protect natural and historic resources.

 

Multi-Generational Ownership and Planning for Family Owned Properties
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The paper explains many of the common legal tools used by families to manage and/or transfer family lands, and gives a very good overview of the expectations and considerations families will face throughout the process.

 

Forever Donation
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A landowner recently asked us: What is the best way to ensure that the land I donate is not sold? We put the question to the land trust community and it generated quite a bit of activity on the land trust listserv.

 

Tax Benefits of Donating Conservation Land
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There are several kinds of tax benefits available to donors of land or conservation easements. This article attempts to summarize these benefits and provide some examples of how they work.

 

NRCS Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative and NFWF Recovered Oil Fund

In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which is fouling beaches, marshes and mudflats all along the northern Gulf coast, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has created the Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative.& ...

 

What is a Land Trust?

Land trusts are non-profit organizations directly involved in the permanent protection of land and its resources for the public benefit. A trust may operate on a local, state, regional, or national level.

 

Bundle Of Rights Approach To Value
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The bundle of rights theory maintains that ownership of a parcel of real estate may embrace a great many rights, such as the right to its occupancy and use; the right to sell it in whole or in part; the right to bequeath; the right to transfer by contract for specified periods of time, the benefits to be derived by occupancy and use of the real estate.

 

2014 Farm Bill Field Guide to Fish and Wildlife Conservation
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The 2014 Farm Bill Field Guide to Fish and Wildlife Conservation was prepared as an introduction for fish and wildlife conservation providers – the on-the-ground biologists and conservation partners who help deliver Farm Bill conservation programs to landowners.

 

13 Components of a Successful Transferable Development Right Program
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For those of you who don’t know, TDR stands for Transferable Development Rights. Simply put, these are typically programs that are designed by local government to allow for the free market transfer of subdivision or development rights from a rural (agricultural and/or conservation) zone to a designated development zone within a jurisdiction.& ...

 

NextGen Conservation - Peninsula Open Space Trust engages Millennials in its mission.
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The 80 million-plus Millennials in the United States represent the next generation of potential land trust supporters and advocates.

 

Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities
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Many rural communities are facing challenges, including rapid growth at metropolitan edges, declining rural populations, and loss of working lands.

 

Conservation of Private Lands - Opportunities and Challenges for the States
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Private land conservation initiatives are a critical component of any state-level quality of life agenda. Although concerns over sprawl, including the loss of prime agricultural lands and significant green space, continue to be one of the underlying rallying cries in support of state-level smart growth initiatives, the fact remains that with few exceptions, conservation of privately-owned working lands has not received significant attention in smart growth literature or conferences.

 

Bosque Canyon Ranch v. Comm’r—Partnerships Denied Deductions for Conservation Easements Allowing Movable Homesites and Taxed on Disguised Sales of Homesites
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Bosque Canyon Ranch, L.P. located in the hill country of Texas was just denied $15.9 million of deductions claimed by partnerships for the donation of conservation easements on two grounds in a tax court decision.

 

A Land Conservation Vision for the Gulf of Mexico Region
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The Gulf Partnership is committed to Strategic Conservation, the identification of the most important areas in a region for conservation, restoration and long-term management.

 

The Conservation Easement Quiz
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Take a quick quiz and test your knowledge on conservation easements and learn if they can work for you.

 

Conservation Easement Paragraph Databank
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The CE Paragraph Databank is a work in progress assembled by the Stanford Conservation and Climate Change Drafting Committee and a number of CE professionals assisting in the work.

 

Conservation Easements and the 2010 Roth Conversion - A symbiotic relationship
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It may come as a shock, but there is a sort of symbiotic relationship at work between property owners with conservation easements and the IRS.

 

Using Conservation Easements to Protect Working Forests
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For decades, conservation easements have protected open space values such as wildlife habitat, ecological diversity, recreational access and aesthetics.

 

Farm and Forest Land Preservation With Conservation Easements
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This publication is intended to provide basic information on conservation easements for landowners, community leaders, students and other interested individuals.

 

The Importance of Land Trusts to Forestry
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Almost everyone in forestry has heard of land trusts since they have become a common fixture especially in areas that are rapidly urbanizing.

 

Conservation Easements - Donor Beware
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Conservation easements have garnered significant attention and gained popularity over the last few years due in part to the availability of federal tax deductions and Virginia state tax credits associated with conservation easements.

 

Easements prove valuable in efforts to protect land
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Practically no one had heard of conservation easements 15 years ago when Charleston native Herbert J. Butler began trying to protect his hundreds of acres of former rice fields.

 

State of the Land 2006, A brief inventory of public and private land in the United States
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Quoted from an essay by Thoreau lamenting the way in which modern urban life has made natural resources into commodities and isolated people from the natural processes on which their lives depended.

 

An Overview of Financial Alternatives for Land Conservation Transactions
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Clearly, the motivation for a land conservation transaction is often the desire of the landowner to safeguard the property. However, this objective must be balanced with the need to maximize the return to the landowner.

 

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There are 715 resources serving South Texas Plains Region in the following categories:
map itMap of Conservation Easements Organizations & Professionals serving South Texas Plains Region
Agricultural Law Attorneys
Farmers Legal Action Group
- St. Paul, MN
Husch Blackwell LLP
- Dallas, TX
Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C.
- Austin, TX
Texas Agriculture Law Blog
Tiffany Dowell Lashmet - Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Agricultural Law - Amarillo, TX
The National Agricultural Law Center
- Fayetteville, AR
Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, J.D.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service - Agricultural Law Specialist - Amarillo, TX
Tiffany Lashmet
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service - Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Agricultural Law - Amarillo, TX
Certified Appraisers
Aaron D. Bierschwale, ARA
Bierschwale Land Company, LLC - Owner, Real Estate Appraiser - Junction, TX
American Forest Management
- Charlotte, NC
Blair T. Stouffer & Assoc., Inc
Robert V. Hicks, MAI - Boerne, TX
Bradley Bujan
CBRE - San Antonio, TX
Bryan S. Miller, MAI, CCIM
National Appraisal Partners, LLP - Houston, TX
Byron K. Setser, MAI
Southwest Appraisal Group, LLC - San Antonio, TX
Christopher E. Adams
Vision Forestry, LLC - Owner/President - Lufkin, TX
Christopher J. Stallings, MAI
- Houston, TX
Clinton J. (Clint) Bendele, ARA, MAI
Valbridge Property Advisors I San Antonio - San Antonio, TX
David Maxwell, ARA
- Devine, TX
Derry Gardner
Gardner Appraisal Group - San Antonio, TX
Derry T. Gardner
Gardner Appraisal Group, Inc. - San Antonio, TX
Hall and Hall
- Billings, MT
Jeffrey W. Briggs, MAI
- Dallas, TX
Jessica Putz
Capital Farm Credit - Jourdanton, TX
Jim Pat Mitchell, MAI
- Austin, TX
Jim W. Shepperd, MAI
Advanced Appraisal Group - Houston, TX
Joe W. Milkes, MAI CCIM
Milkes Realty Valuation - Owner - Plano, TX
John C. Hodges, ARA
John Hodges RE Appraisals - Uvalde, TX
John P. (Tooter) Robertson, Jr., ARA
Valbridge Property Advisors | San Antonio - San Antonio, TX
John W. Schmedemann
The Frost National Bank - San Antonio, TX
Justin Bierschwale, ARA
Bierschwale Land Company, LLC - Owner, Real Estate Appraiser - Junction, TX
Karl F. Armstead, ARA
Omega Properties - Fort Stockton, TX
Kyle Schroeder, ARA
Valbridge Property Advisors I San Antonio - San Antonio, TX
L. Sam Middleton, ARA
Chas S. Middleton and Son - Appraiser, Manager - Lubbock, TX
Lannie B. Philley, AFM
Delta Land & Farm Mgmt Co, LLC - Appraiser, Manager - Mer Rouge, LA
Marty Bryant, MAI
Southwest Appraisal Group, LLC - San Antonio, TX
Mason, Bruce & Girard
- Blacksburg, VA
Merrill E. Swanson, ARA
Valbridge Property Advisors/Dugger, Canaday, Grafe, Inc. - Senior Managing Director - San Antonio, TX
Michael L. Kersten
Capital Farm Credit - San Antonio, TX
Nittler Appraisal and Consulting
David Nittler, MAI - Texas Certified General Real Estate Appraiser - Harlingen, TX
Paul E. Bierschwale, ARA
Bierschwale Land Company, LLC - Owner, Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Broker, Consultant - Junction, TX
Philip A. Sadler
ESO Real Estate Services - San Antonio, TX
Philip D. Bailey, MAI
Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc. - Senior Appraiser, Eastern US & International - Blacksburg, VA
Ricky ONeill
Neeley Forestry Service, Inc. - Certified Wildlife Biologist and Certified Forester - Camden, AR
Rudy R. Robinson, III, MAI
- Austin, TX
Ryan C. Healy, ARA
- San Antonio, TX
Samuel Noble, CRE
Noble & Associates, Inc. - San Antonio, TX
Scruggs Love
Love & Associates - Hondo, TX
Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc.
- Bainbridge, GA
Stacy W. Jackson
Jackson Real Estate Professionals, LLC - Owner - Winnsboro, TX
Steven J. Bilicek
Texas Ag Realty - Houston , TX
Warren E. Peters
Peters Forest Resources, Inc. - President - Baton Rouge, LA
William R. (Bill) Schott, AFM, ARA
Schott Consulting And Appraisal - San Antonio, TX
Conservation Districts
Agua Poquita SWCD
- Benavides, TX
Alamo SWCD
- San Antonio, TX
Atascosa County SWCD
- Pleasanton, TX
Bee SWCD
- Beeville, TX
Copano Bay SWCD
- Refugio, TX
Devil's River SWCD
- Del Rio, TX
Dimmit County SWCD
- Carrizo Springs, TX
Frio SWCD
- Pearsall, TX
Goliad County SWCD
- Goliad, TX
Hidalgo SWCD
- Edinburg, TX
Jim Wells County SWCD
- Alice, TX
Karnes County SWCD
- Kenedy, TX
Kleberg-Kenedy SWCD
- Kingsville, TX
La Salle County SWCD
- Cotulla, TX
Little Wichita SWCD
- Henrietta, TX
Live Oak SWCD
- George West, TX
Loma Blanca SWCD
- Falfurrias, TX
Maverick County SWCD
- Eagle Pass, TX
McMullen County SWCD
- Tilden, TX
Medina Valley SWCD
- Hondo, TX
Monte Mucho SWCD
- Hebbronville, TX
Nueces SWCD
- Robstown, TX
Nueces-Frio-Sabinal SWCD
- Uvalde, TX
San Patricio SWCD
- Sinton, TX
Southmost SWCD
- San Benito, TX
Starr County SWCD
- Rio Grande City, TX
Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board
- Temple, TX
Webb SWCD
- Laredo, TX
West Nueces-Las Moras SWCD
- Brackettville, TX
Willacy SWCD
- Raymondville, TX
Wilson County SWCD
- Floresville, TX
Winter Garden SWCD
- Crystal City, TX
Zapata SWCD
- Zapata, TX
Conservation Groups and Associations
A Rocha USA
Mark Purcell - Executive Director - Fredericksburg, TX
Access Fund
- Boulder, CO
ACRE Investment Management, LLC
- The Plains, VA
Agrarian Trust
Ian McSweeney - Director - Weare, NH
AGree
- Washington, DC
Agronomic Science Foundation
Susan Dearing-Bond - Director - Fitchburg, WI
America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative
Kyle Jones - USDA Forest Service Regional Longleaf Pine Restoration Coordinator - Tallahassee, FL
American Agri-Women
- Colchester, VT
American Battlefield Trust
- Washington, DC
American Conservation Coalition
- Appleton, WI
American Farm Bureau Federation
- Washington, DC
American Fisheries Society
- Bethesda, MD
American Forest Foundation
- Washington, DC
American Forests
- Washington, DC
American Friends of Canadian Conservation
Sandra Tassel - Program Coordinator - Bellingham, WA
American Hiking Society
- Silver Spring, MD
American Rivers
Jaime Sigaran - Associate Director - Washington, DC
Ann Ruzow Holland, Ph.D. AICP
- Willsboro, NY
Arbor Day Foundation
- Nebraska City, NE
Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies
- Washington, DC
Bat Conservation International
- Austin, TX
Bee City USA
An Initiative of the Xerces Society - Portland, OR
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
- Brighton, CO
Bisbee's Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund
Richard Bisbee - President - Frisco, TX
Boone and Crockett Club
- Missoula, MT
Borderlands Research Institute
Sul Ross State University - Alpine, TX
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
- Kingsville, TX
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - New Brunswick Chapter
Roberta Clowater - Executive Director - Fredericton, NB
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ottawa Valley Chapter
- Ottawa, ON
Center for Collaborative Conservation
Warner College of Natural Resources - Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO
Center for Large Landscape Conservation
- Bozeman, MT
Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center
- Fort Davis, TX
Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance
- Missoula, MT
CitSci.org
Greg Newman - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program
- Corpus Christi, TX
Coastal Conservation Association
- Houston, TX
ConservAmerica
- Washington, DC
Conservation Force
- Metairie, LA
Conservation Law Center
Christian Freitag - Director - Bloomington, IN
Conservation Plus
- The Plains, VA
Conservation Solutions, LLC
Palmer Brock - Greenwood, MS
Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)
- West Lafayette, IN
Conservation United
Kevin Heckinger - Gilbert, AZ
Continental Dialogue on Non-Native Forests Insects and Diseases
- Sheffield, MA
Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports
- Washington, DC
Delta Waterfowl Foundation
- Bismarck, ND
Ducks Unlimited - Texas
Todd Merendino - Manager, Conservation Programs - Richmond, TX
EarthShare of Texas
- Austin, TX
EcoAgriculture Partners
- Oakton, VA
Ecological Restoration Business Association
- Tysons, VA
EcoResults!
- Flagstaff, AZ
Environmental Incentives
- South Lake Tahoe, CA
Equine Land Conservation Resource
- Lexington, KY
Family Farm Alliance
- Klamath Falls, OR
Farmers For Monarchs
Franklin Holley - Keystone, CO
Forest Stewards Guild
- Santa Fe, NM
Forest Stewardship Council
- Minneapolis, MN
George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center (Sutton Center)
- Bartlesville, OK
Gorgas Science Foundation
- Brownsville, TX
Great Ecology
- San Diego, CA
Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development
Gail Nosek - Communications Director - Minneapolis, MN
Great Springs Project
- Austin, TX
Green School Alliance
- New York, NY
Guada-Coma Independent Cattlemen’s Association
Leroy Munich Jr. - Chapter President - Seguin, TX
Gulf Coast Joint Venture
Barry Wilson, USFWS - GCJV Coordinator - Lafayette, LA
Gulf Restoration Network
- New Orleans, LA
Hill Country Alliance
- Dripping Springs, TX
Hill Country Conservancy
Frank Davis - Chief Conservation Officer - Austin, TX
Houston Safari Club
- Houston, TX
Hunt Fish 30x30 Coalition
Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation - Washington, DC
Iara Lacher
Seven Bends Nursery - Ecologist / Consultant - Berryville, VA
Images for Conservation Fund
John F. Martin - Chairman - Edinburg, TX
Independent Cattlemen’s Association of Texas
Bill Hyman - Executive Director - Lockhart, TX
Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program
Monarch Joint Venture - St. Paul, MN
Itasca Ladyslipper Farm
Carol Steele - Grand Rapids, MN
Izaak Walton League
- Gaithersburg, MD
John Sanderson
Center for Collaborative Conservation - Director - Fort Collins, CO
Journey North
- Madison, WI
Julia Debes
Pheasants Forever - Working Lands for Wildlife Director of Agricultural Communications - Hoisington, KS
Keep Texas Beautiful
Cathie Gail - Executive Director - Austin, TX
Land Trust Alliance
- Washington, DC
Lone Star Chapter Sierra Club
- Austin, TX
Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture
Keith McKnight - Coordinator - Vicksburg, MS
Mad Agriculture
- Boulder, CO
Manomet
- Plymouth, MA
Mark Howell
Grounded Truths LLC - Director/Emergency & Fire Mgmt Specialist - Doniphan, MO
Metro Blooms
Becky Rice - Executive Director - Minneapolis, MN
Mid-America Monarch Conservation Strategy
- Rhinelander, WI
Milkweed Market
Monarch Watch - Lawrence, KS
Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange
Chandler Clay, Environmental Defense Fund - Communications Manager - Austin, TX
Monarch Collaborative
Keystone Policy Center - Keystone, CO
Monarch Flyway
- Ogallala, NE
Monarch Joint Venture
- St. Paul, MN
Monarch Larva Monitoring Project
- Madison, WI
Monarch Watch
Orley R. 'Chip' Taylor - Founder & Director - Lawrence, KS
Moore-Odom Wildlife Foundation, Inc.
Jennie Scalfano - Director / Vice President - Orange, TX
Mule Deer Foundation
- Salt Lake City, UT
National Association of State Foresters
- Washington, DC
National Audubon Society
- New York, NY
National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
- Clemson, SC
National Deer Association
- Bogart, GA
National Family Farm Coaltion
- Washington, DC
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- Washington, DC
National Forestry Association
Keith A. Argow - President, Director at Large - Vienna, VA
National Grazing Lands Coalition
Monti Golla - National GLC Executive Director - College Station, TX
National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Washington, DC
National Wild Turkey Federation
- Edgefield, SC
National Wildlife Federation
- Reston, VA
National Wildlife Federation - South Central Regional Center
- Austin, TX
Native Plant Society of Texas
- Fredericksburg, TX
Native Seeds-SEARCH
- Tucson, AZ
Natural Areas Association
- Pittsburgh, PA
Nature Manitoba
Roger Turenne - President - Winnipeg, MB
No-till on the Plains
- Protection, KS
North American Grouse Partnership
- Garden Valley, ID
Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture
- Round Rock, TX
Orianne Society
- Tiger, GA
Park Cities Quail
- Dallas, TX
Parks for Pollinators
National Recreation and Park Association - Ashburn, VA
Partnerscapes
Steve Jester - Executive Director - Pueblo, CO
Partnership for Conservation
- Washington, DC
Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation
- Tallahassee, FL
Partnership of Rangeland Trusts
- Arvada, CO
Pheasants Forever
- St Paul, MN
Pinchot Institute for Conservation
V. Alaric Sample - President - Washington, DC
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
- Erie, CO
Pollinators Prospering People
- Baltimore, MD
Project Apis m.
- Salt Lake City, UT
Project Monarch Health
- Athens, GA
Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation
- Buffalo, MO
Quail Coalition
- Dallas, TX
Quail-Tech Alliance
- Dallas, TX
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
- Washington, DC
Ranchers and Landowners Association of Texas
Fidel C. Ramirez - President - Liberty, TX
Rio Grande Joint Venture
- Alpine, TX
Rio Grande Valley Chapter
Texas Master Naturalist Program - Laguna Vista, TX
Rio Grande Valley Chapter - Independent Cattlemen’s Association
- Roma, TX
Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation
- Sinton, TX
Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society
- Coraopolis, PA
Save Texas Water
Water Conservation Advisory Council - Austin, TX
Savory Institute
- Boulder, CO
Shortleaf Pine Initiative
- Athens, GA
Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Ankeny, IA
South Central Texas Independent Cattlemen’s Association
Brad Cotton - Poth, TX
South Texans' Property Rights Association
Susan Kibbe - Executive Director - Falfurrias, TX
South Texans’ Property Rights Association
- Falfurrias, TX
South Texas Border Chapter
Texas Master Naturalist Program - San Juan, TX
South Texas Chapter
Texas Master Naturalist Program - Kingsville, TX
South Texas Chapter of Quail Coalition
- Falfurrias, TX
Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
- Aiken, SC
Southeastern Grasslands Initiative
- Clarksville, TN
Southern Conservation Trust
Chris Doane - President/CEO - Fayetteville, GA
Southern Group of State Foresters
- Garner, NC
Sportsmen's Alliance
- Columbus, OH
Sustainable Forestry Initiative
Kathy Abusow - President and CEO - Washington, DC
Sustainable Monarchs
- North Platte, NE
Terrafirma RRG LLC
- Burlington, VT
Texan by Nature
- Austin, TX
Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (NRI)
- College Station, TX
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Tim Niedecken - Executive director, association services - Fort Worth, TX
Texas Audubon
- Austin, TX
Texas Brigades
- New Braunfels, TX
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
- Amarillo, TX
Texas Cave Management Association
- San Antonio, TX
Texas Farm Bureau
Penny Cox - Communications Division - Waco, TX
Texas Forestry Association
- Lufkin, TX
Texas Land and Mineral Owners Association
- Austin, TX
Texas Land Trust Council
Lori Olson - Executive Director - Wimberly, TX
Texas Living Waters Project
- Austin, TX
Texas Master Naturalist Program
- College Station, TX
Texas Oak Wilt Partnership
- College Station, TX
Texas Ornithological Society
Jim Hailey - President - Georgetown, TX
Texas Parks & Recreation Foundation
Sally Gavlik - Executive Director - Corpus Christi, TX
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation
- Dallas, TX
Texas Real Estate Advocacy & Defense Coalition
- Austin, TX
Texas Section - Society for Range Management (TSSRM)
- San Marcos, TX
Texas Speleological Association
Jessica Gordon - Chairman - Austin, TX
Texas Water Conservation Association
- Austin, TX
Texas Water Foundation
- Austin, TX
Texas Wildlife Association
Iliana Pena - Director of Conservation Programs - New Braunfels, TX
Texas Wildlife Association Foundation
- New Braunfels, TX
The Climate Trust
- Portland, OR
The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation
- Washington, DC
The Conservation Fund
- Arlington, VA
The Earth Partners
- Houston, TX
The Fund for Wild Nature
- La Canada, CA
The Land Institute
- Salina, KS
The Longleaf Alliance
- Andalusia, AL
The Meateater Land Access Initiative
Meat EaterMT
The Pollinator Partnership
- San Francisco, CA
The Valley Land Fund
- McAllen, TX
The Wildlife Society - Texas Chapter
- Burton, TX
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
- Portland, OR
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
- Washington, DC
Thunder Bay Field Naturalists
Bruce Thacker - President - Thunder Bay, ON
Trout Headwaters, Inc.
- Livingston, MT
Trust for Public Land, Texas Office
- Dallas, TX
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA)
- Chesterfield, MO
Unique Places To Save
- Chapel Hill, NC
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
- London, ON
USA National Phenology Network
- Tucson, AZ
Valleys 2000
Bill Huether - Treasurer - Bowmanville, ON
Victoria-Crossroads Chapter
Independent Cattlemen’s Association - Victoria, TX
Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation
- Halifax, VA
Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
- Manomet, MA
WHF - Wildlife Habitat Federation
Garry Stephens - Executive Managing Director - Cat Spring, TX
Wild Sheep Foundation
- Bozeman, MT
Wildlife Forever
- White Bear Lake, MN
Wildlife In Focus
- Corpus Christi, TX
Wildlife Management Institute
- Gardners, PA
Wildlife Research Institute
- Julian, CA
Wimberley Valley Watershed Association
- Wimberley, TX
Women, Food & Agriculture Network
- Ames, IA
Consultants - Land
American Forest Management
- Charlotte, NC
Ann Ruzow Holland, Ph.D. AICP
- Willsboro, NY
Ardaman
- Orlando, FL
Ashley Gregory
Water Resource Specialist - Texas Water Resources Institute - College Station, TX
Brenda Schick
Singing Stream Conservation Consultants - Principal - La Jolla, CA
C-K Associates, Inc
- Baton Rouge, LA
Calvin Trostle
Water Resource Specialist - Lubbock AREC - Lubbock, TX
Charlie Rush
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - Amarillo AREC - Amarillo, TX
Cirrus Ecological Solutions
Neal Artz - Logan, UT
Coastal Environments - Baton Rouge
- Baton Rouge, LA
Conservation Consulting Group
Nancy W. Moore - Managing Partner - Monona, WI
Curtis Hodges Jr.
- Commercial Certified and Insured Prescribed Burn Manager, Certified Wildlife Biologist, GIS Specialist - Gatesville, TX
Dana Porter
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - Lubbock AREC - College Station, TX
David Harper
Land in Common - Charleston, SC
David Reed
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - TAMU - Horticulture Department - College Station, TX
Design Workshop
Anna Laybourn - Principal - Aspen, CO
Diane Boellstorff
Water Resource Specialist - Soil and Crop Sciences - AgriLife Extension - College Station, TX
Dr. Guy Fipps
Water Resource Specialist - Professor and Extension Engineer - College Station, TX
Dr. Richard Vierling
Natural Resources Economics - Center Director - Vernon, TX
Eco-Asset Solutions & Innovations LLC
- Redwood City, CA
Ed O' Brien
Forestry and Land Resource Consultants, Inc. - Sam Rayburn, TX
Edward Rashin
Hicks and Company - Austin, TX
EnSafe
- Memphis, TN
Evelyn Steglich
Water Resource Specialist - Blackland AREC - Temple, TX
Evr-green Management Group, Inc
Matt S. Campbell - President - Rome, GA
Field Sport Concepts, LTD
- Charlottesville, VA
Forest Resource Consultants
Brian Stone - Forest Management - Macon, GA
Frank M. Hons
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - Soil and Crop Sciences - TAMU - College Station, TX
Fugen Dou
Water Resource Specialist - AgriLife Research - Beaumont AREC - Beaumont, TX
Gainco, Inc
Theresa Nix - Portland, TX
Goshawk Environmental Consulting Inc.
Zane Homesley - Founder/President - Austin, TX
Green Infrastructure Center
Karen Firehock - Executive Director - Charlottesville, VA
Greener Prospects
- Brunswick, ME
Gregg Elliott
K Gregg Consulting - Conservation Communications Consultant - Cordova, TN
Guy Glosson
HMI Professional Certified Educator - Professional Certified Educator - Snyder, TX
H. Brent Pemberton
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - Overton AREC - Overton, TX
Hemard & Company
Victor E. Hemard Jr. - President - Texarkana, TX
Hicks & Company
- Austin, TX
Holistic Management International
Sandy Langelier - Director, Communications & Outreach - Albuquerque, NM
Horizon Environmental Services, Inc.
- Austin, TX
Iara Lacher
Seven Bends Nursery - Ecologist / Consultant - Berryville, VA
Jacqueline Aitkenhead-Peterson
Water Resource Specialist - Soil and Crop Sciences - AgriLife Research - College Station, TX
Jaime Flores
Arroyo Colorado Watershed Coordinator - Texas Water Resources Institute - Weslaco, TX
James Armstrong
Rare Earth Science, LLC - Principal Geologist / Environmental Scientist - Gunnison, CO
James L. Heilman
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - Soil and Crop Sciences - TAMU - College Station, TX
Jaroy Moore
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - Lubbock AREC - Lubbock, TX
Jason B. Stinson, CCIM
Commercial Realty Services of Alabama, LLC - Managing Member & Principal - Gadsden, AL
Jenny Blair, C.W.B.
Blair Wildlife Consulting - Principal - Kyle, TX
Jeremy Sokulsky
Environmental Incentives - President - South Lake Tahoe, CA
Joe Hamrick
Compliance and Wildlife - Raven Environmental Services, Inc. - Huntsville, TX
Joel Rudolph
- Forester, Real Estate Broker - Nacogdoches, TX
Joel Russell
Joel Russell Associates - Principal - Northampton, MA
John J. Kuhl
Hicks and Company - Austin, TX
Juan Enciso
Water Resource Specialist - Biological and Agricultural Engineering - Weslaco AREC - Weslaco, TX
Julie Boggs
Peoples Company - Land Manager, AFM - Monroe, LA
Justin T. Penick
Acorn Forestry - President - Lufkin, TX
Kevin Wagner
Water Resource Specialist - Texas Water Resources Institute - College Station, TX
Land Conservation Assistance Network
Amos Eno - President / Executive Director - Yarmouth, ME
Land EKG
Charley Orchard - Ten Sleep, WY
Lewis Williams
Forestry and Land Resource Consultants, Inc. - Lufkin, TX
Linda Ziccardi
Alpine EcoSciences LLC - Owner - Golden, CO
Living Habitats LLC
Heidi Natura, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP - Principal & CEO - Chicago, IL
LJ Conservation Matters
Leonard Jordan - Douglasville, GA
Lucas Gregory
Water Resource Specialist - Texas Water Resources Institute - College Station, TX
Mark McFarland
Water Resource Specialist - Agricultural and Landscape Irrigation - AgriLife Extension, TAMU - Soil and Crop Sciences - College Station, TX
Matt Brown
Program Specialist - Department of Soil and Crop Sciences - College Station, TX
Mayes, Wilson & Associates
- San Marcos, TX
Mitigation Solutions USA
- Center, TX
National NEMO Network
- Haddam, CT
Neiman Environments Inc
- Junction, TX
Nelms Dozer, LLC
Jason Nelms - Owner - Pennington, TX
Nikki Dictson
Extension Program Specialist II - Texas Water Resources Institute - College Station, TX
Patricia Smith
Water Resource Specialist - AgriLife Research, TAMU - College Station, TX
Paul DeLaune
Water Resource Specialist - AgriLife Research - Soil and Crop Sciences - Vernon, TX
Pearl Land and Asset Management
Robert Corkren - Owner/Operator - Galveston, TX
Peter Kleto
Forestry and Land Resource Consultants, Inc. - Grantville, GA
Philip D. Bailey, MAI
Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc. - Senior Appraiser, Eastern US & International - Blacksburg, VA
Pinchot Institute for Conservation
V. Alaric Sample - President - Washington, DC
PlanIt Forward
Patrick Crist - Principal - Broomfield, CO
Platte River Ag Services, Inc.
Ron Zurlinden, P.E. - Owner - Golden, CO
Plauche’ & Carr, LLP
- Baton Rouge, LA
PPM Consultants
- Monroe, LA
Preservation Texas
- Austin, TX
Ray Lott
Ray Lott & Associates, Inc. - President/Consulting Forester - Texarkana, TX
Resource Analytical & Management Group, LLC
Billy K. Lemons - President & Principal Consultant - Nacogdoches, TX
Rhizoterra Inc.
Avril Stevenson - Project Manager - Spokane, WA
Robert C. Crane
Woodland Management Service - Consulting Forester - Stevens Point, WI
Robin G. Willhoite
United Timber Management Co. - Consulting Forester - Timpson, TX
RoyOMartin
Hunting Leases - Alexandria, LA
Sage Advisors, LLC
- West Chester, PA
Solutions in the Land, LLC
- Kenosha, WI
Southern Fire Exchange
Kevin Robertson - Fire Ecology Research Scientist - Tallahassee, FL
SRP Environmental, LLC
- Shreveport, LA
Stacy W. Jackson
Jackson Real Estate Professionals, LLC - Owner - Winnsboro, TX
Steve Nelle
Private Independent Land Management Consulting - Wildlife Biologist / Rangeland Specialist - San Angelo, TX
Strategic Conservation Solutions, LLC
Bruce I. Knight - Principal and Founder - Washington, DC
Synergy Resource Solutions, Inc.
- Belgrade, MT
T. Allen Berthold
Water Resource Specialist - Texas Water Resources - College Station, TX
T. Baker Smith, Inc.
- Houma, LA
TGE Resources, Inc.
Robin Franks, P.G., CHMM, RSO - President/Principal - Houston, TX
The Earth Partners
- Houston, TX
The Land Board
- Dallas, TX
Thomas Gerik
Water Resource Specialist - AgriLife Research - Temple, TX
Thomas L. Daniels
University of Pennsylvania School of Design - Professor of City and Regional Planning - Philadelphia, PA
Titanium Environmental Services, LLC
- Longview, TX
Understanding Ag, LLC
- Fort Payne, AL
Vijay Singh
Water Resource Specialist - AgriLife Research, TAMU, TEES - College Station, TX
Warren E. Peters
Peters Forest Resources, Inc. - President - Baton Rouge, LA
Whitenton Group, Inc.
- San Marcos, TX
Easement Monitoring and Stewardship Services
Ardaman
- Orlando, FL
Brenda Schick
Singing Stream Conservation Consultants - Principal - La Jolla, CA
Eco-Asset Solutions & Innovations LLC
- Redwood City, CA
Ecoresource Solutions Inc
Tony Byrne - President/Principal Ecologist - Arvada, CO
Hill Country Conservancy
Frank Davis - Chief Conservation Officer - Austin, TX
James Armstrong
Rare Earth Science, LLC - Principal Geologist / Environmental Scientist - Gunnison, CO
Joe Hamrick
Compliance and Wildlife - Raven Environmental Services, Inc. - Huntsville, TX
Josh Hollis
Land Solutions - Marshall, CA
Karen Johansen
Wildwood Management - Owner - Bishop, GA
Ken Cearley
Texas Agricultural Land Trust - Stewardship Manager for West Texas - San Antonio, TX
LightHawk
- Denver, CO
Plauche’ & Carr, LLP
- Baton Rouge, LA
Resource Analytical & Management Group, LLC
Billy K. Lemons - President & Principal Consultant - Nacogdoches, TX
Southern Conservation Trust
Chris Doane - President/CEO - Fayetteville, GA
T. Baker Smith, Inc.
- Houma, LA
Warren E. Peters
Peters Forest Resources, Inc. - President - Baton Rouge, LA
Estate Planners
Aemma Womack McMurrey
A. McMurrey Law Firm, PLLC - Attorney at Law - Bastrop, TX
Allen B. Craig, III
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP - Houston, TX
Andrews Kurth LLP
Terri Lacy - Houston, TX
Bill Atwood, MBA, CFE, CFF, CPA
- Red Rock, TX
Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins, P.C.
Jerry M. Scroggins, Jr. - Houston, TX
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Charles W. Hall - Houston, TX
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
Lawrence J. Pirtle - Of Counsel - Houston, TX
Kurt Andreason
Andreason Law Firm - Attorney at Law - Sugar Land, TX
Louis M. Ditta
Cenatiempo & Ditta LLP - Houston, TX
MacIntyre & McCulloch, LLP
W. Cameron McCulloch, Jr. - Houston, TX
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Mayer Brown LLP
M. Marvin Katz - Houston, TX
Michael R. Tibbets
De Lange, Hudspeth, McConnell & Tibbets, LLP - Houston, TX
Morris Ostrom
Jason Ostrom - Houston, TX
R. Hal Moorman
Moorman Tate Haley Upchurch & Yates, LLP - Brenham, TX
Rodney C. Koenig
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. - Of Counsel - Houston, TX
Roger Q Beck
Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins - Houston, TX
Stefnee D. Ashlock
Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins - Houston, TX
Stephen T. Dyer
Baker Botts L.L.P. - Houston, TX
Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, P.C.
Paul Daniel Strug - Houston, TX
Winstead PC
Kyle Watson - Managing Shareholder - The Woodlands, TX
Estate Planning Attorneys
Aemma Womack McMurrey
A. McMurrey Law Firm, PLLC - Attorney at Law - Bastrop, TX
Alan V. Ytterberg
Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP - Houston, TX
Andrew J. Aelvoet
The Nunley Firm - Boerne, TX
Candace Windel
Windel Prewett PLLC - Houston, TX
Cassie Gresham
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
Celeste C. Lawton
Norton Rose Fulbright - Houston, TX
Danny Ray Boon
- Dallas, TX
David Braun
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
Donna L. Courville
Boutin Jones Inc. - Of Counsel - Sacramento, CA
Donna Peck
Sprouse Shrader Smith PC - Amarillo, TX
Duncan E. Osborne
Osborne, Helman, Knebel & Scott, LLP - Partner - Austin, TX
Elizabeth Burney
Drought, Drought & Bobbitt, L.L.P. - San Antonio, TX
George A. Hrdlicka
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, P.C. - Houston, TX
Gwendolyn Lacy
Advocacy Matters LLC - Silver City, NM
Husch Blackwell LLP
- Dallas, TX
Jack P. Eckels
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, P.C. - Houston, TX
James E. Brill, P.C.
- Houston, TX
Jennie Michelle Hyatt
Hyatt Law Firm LLC - Attorney At Law - Nacogdoches, TX
Jonathan B. Cluck
The Nunley Firm - Boerne, TX
Joseph C. Sleeth, Jr.
Norton Rose Fulbright - Houston, TX
Kirk Randolph Wilson
Three Hughes Landing - Spring, TX
Kristi Franklin Hyatt
Cotton Bledsoe Tighe & Dawson, PC - Midland, TX
Larry George
Crain, Caton & James, PC - Houston, TX
Margaret Menicucci
Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Austin, TX
Mark A. Jacob
Locke Lord LLP - Partner - Houston, TX
Matthew Brysacz
Brysacz Law Firm, PLLC - Estate Planning Attorney - San Antonio, TX
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Michael J. Cenatiempo
Cenatiempo & Ditta LLP - Of Counsel - Houston, TX
Morris Ostrom
Jason Ostrom - Houston, TX
Paige K. Ben-Yaacov
Baker Botts - Houston, TX
R. Eric Viehman
Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP - Houston, TX
Richard John Kohlbrand
- Huntsville, TX
Ronald W. Kesterson
Baker Botts L.L.P. - Houston, TX
Sage Advisors, LLC
- West Chester, PA
Sarah Patel Pacheco
Crain, Caton & James, P.C. - Houston, TX
Scott A. Schepps
Jackson Walker - Partner - Houston, TX
Simon Sidamon-Eristof
Kalbian Hagerty LLP - of Counsel - Washington, DC
Susan Armstrong
Armstrong Law - Austin, TX
Thomas Hall
Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Attorney and Counselor - Austin, TX
Winstead PC
Stephanie Loomis-Price - Houston, TX
Yolanda C. Knull
Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP - Houston, TX
Federal and State Tax Incentives and Programs
Agricultural Tax Appraisal Based on Wildlife Management
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Wildlife Division Private Lands and Habitat Program - Austin, TX
Current Use Tax Program
- Montpelier, VT
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center - Raleigh, NC
Managed Forest Law
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Madison, WI
Native Prairie and Wildlife Habitat - Property Tax Benefits
- Des Moines, IA
Native Prairie Tax Exemption Program
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - St Paul, MN
Open Space Conservation - Property Tax Benefits
- Crownsville, MD
Reforestation Tax Credit Program
- Oregon Department of Forestry - Salem, OR
Sage Advisors, LLC
- West Chester, PA
Waterfowl Restoration Program
- Cambridge, MD
Wildlife Management Tax Exemption
Comptroller, Property Tax Division - Austin, TX
FSA Local Offices
Atascosa County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Pleasanton Service Center - Pleasanton, TX
Bee County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Beeville Service Center - Beeville, TX
Bexar County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - San Antonio Service Center - San Antonio, TX
Brooks-Jim Hogg County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Falfurrias Service Center - Falfurrias, TX
Cameron County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - San Benito Service Center - San Benito, TX
Dimmit-Zavala County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Carrizo Springs Service Center - Carrizo Springs, TX
Duval County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Benavides Service Center - Benavides, TX
Frio-La Salle County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Pearsall Service Center - Pearsall, TX
Hidalgo County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Edinburg Service Center - Edinburg, TX
Jim Wells County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Alice Service Center - Alice, TX
Karnes County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Kenedy Service Center - Kenedy, TX
Kleberg-Kenedy County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Kingsville Service Center - Kingsville, TX
Live Oak-Mcmullen County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - George West Service Center - George West, TX
Medina County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Hondo Service Center - Hondo, TX
Nueces County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Robstown Service Center - Robstown, TX
Refugio-Goliad County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Refugio Service Center - Refugio, TX
San Patricio-Aransas County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Sinton Service Center - Sinton, TX
Starr-Zapata County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Rio Grande City Service Center - Rio Grande City, TX
Uvalde-Kinney-Maverick-Real County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Uvalde Service Center - Uvalde, TX
Webb County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Laredo Service Center - Laredo, TX
Willacy County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Raymondville Service Center - Raymondville, TX
Wilson County Farm Service Agency
Farm Service Agency - Floresville Service Center - Floresville, TX
Land Trusts
American Farmland Trust
- Washington, DC
BC Nature
Federation of BC Naturalists - North Vancouver, BC
Brenda Schick
Singing Stream Conservation Consultants - Principal - La Jolla, CA
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ottawa Valley Chapter
- Ottawa, ON
Cibolo Conservancy
- Boerne, TX
Conservancy Hornby Island
- Hornby Island , BC
Delta Waterfowl Foundation
- Bismarck, ND
Fraser Headwaters Alliance
- Dunster , BC
Fraser Valley Conservancy
- Abbotsford, BC
Gabriola Land and Trails Trust
Tom Cameron - President - Gabriola Island, BC
Gorgas Science Foundation
- Brownsville, TX
GrassrootsCarbon-PastureMap
PastureMap - San Antonio, TX
Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas
- San Antonio, TX
Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust
- Seguin, TX
Hill Country Conservancy
Frank Davis - Chief Conservation Officer - Austin, TX
Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust
- Washington, DC
Islands Trust Fund
- Victoria, BC
John Sanderson
Center for Collaborative Conservation - Director - Fort Collins, CO
Kawartha Heritage Conservancy
- Peterborough, ON
Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
- Kingston, ON
Land Legacy
- Tulsa, OK
Land Trust Alliance
- Washington, DC
Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia
Sheila Harrington - Programs Director - Victoria, BC
Malaspina Land Conservancy
Janet Alred - President - Powell River, BC
Michael Hart
LandVest, Inc. - Senior Appraiser - Boston, MA
Mitigation Futures Conservancy
- McKinney, TX
Nanaimo Area Land Trust
- Conservation Covenants Coordinator - Nanaimo, BC
Native Prairies Association of Texas
- Manchaca, TX
Nature Conservancy of Canada
National Office - Toronto, ON
Nature Manitoba
Roger Turenne - President - Winnipeg, MB
Nature Trust of British Columbia
- BC Conservation Land Manager - Vancouver, BC
Nature Vancouver
Daniel Overmyer - Vancouver, BC
North American Land Trust
- Chadds Ford, PA
Open Space Institute
Jennifer Grossman - Vice President New York Land Program - New York, NY
Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation
- Tallahassee, FL
Pelican Coast Conservancy
Walter C Ernest, IV - Director of Operation - Mobile, AL
Pender Islands Conservancy
Sylvia Pincott - Pender Island, BC
Quadra Island Conservancy and Stewardship Society
George Barabas - Heriot Bay, BC
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Missoula, MT
Sage Advisors, LLC
- West Chester, PA
Salt Spring Island Conservancy
Linda Gilkeson - Executive Director - Salt Spring Island, BC
Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation Habitat Trust Fund
- Moose Jaw, SK
Savary Island Land Trust Society
Liz Webster - Executive Director - Lund, BC
Silva Forest Foundation
Susan Hammond - Slocan Park, BC
Societe de Protection Fonciere de Saint-Adele
Jean-Louis Poirier - President - Saint-Adele, QC
Southern Conservation Trust
Chris Doane - President/CEO - Fayetteville, GA
Sportsmen's National Land Trust
- Agawam, MA
Terrafirma RRG LLC
- Burlington, VT
Texas Agricultural Land Trust
- San Antonio, TX
Texas Land Conservancy
- Austin, TX
Texas Land Trust Council
Lori Olson - Executive Director - Wimberly, TX
The Barn Group
- Brooks, GA
The Nature Conservancy, Texas Field Office
- San Antonio, TX
The Trustees of Reservations
- Boston, MA
The Valley Land Fund
- McAllen, TX
Trout Unlimited
Chris Wood - President and Chief Executive Officer - Arlington, VA
Trust for Public Land, Texas Office
- Dallas, TX
Waterloo Region Nature
- Waterloo, ON
Watershed Land Trust
- Belton, MO
Wetlands America Trust
- Memphis, TN
Natural Resource Law Attorneys
Amy M. Mitchell
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP - Senior Counsel - Austin, TX
Andrew J. Aelvoet
The Nunley Firm - Boerne, TX
Anson Boulware Howard
Uhl, Fitzsimons, Burton, Wolff & Rangel, PLLC - Partner - San Antonio, TX
Arthur G. Uhl III
Uhl, Fitzsimons & Jewett, PLLC - Shareholder - San Antonio, TX
Becky Jolin
Smith Jolin LLP - Austin, TX
Benjamin R. Rhem
Jackson Walker L.L.P. - Partner - Austin, TX
Bradley Raffle
Conservation Capital - CEO - Eugene, OR
C-K Associates, Inc
- Baton Rouge, LA
Cassie Gresham
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
Charles Wehland
Jones Day - Partner - Chicago, IL
Christopher B. Amandes
Partner - Morgan Lewis - Houston, TX
Conservation Law Center
Christian Freitag - Director - Bloomington, IN
David Braun
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
David E. Whitten
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C. - Shareholder - Addison, TX
David F. Reid
Eversheds Sutherland - Partner - Houston, TX
David Hartman
Smith, Robertson, Elliott & Douglas, L.L.P. - Austin, TX
David P. Smith
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody - Shareholder - Austin, TX
Endangered Species Law and Policy Group
Nossaman LLP - Los Angeles, CA
Eric B. Darnell, ESQ.
Attorney & Counselor at Law - The Darnell Law Firm - El Paso, TX
Gerald Scott Webberman
Jackson Walker LLP - Partner - Austin, TX
Gwendolyn Lacy
Advocacy Matters LLC - Silver City, NM
Helen Currie Foster
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody - Shareholder - Austin, TX
Husch Blackwell LLP
- Dallas, TX
James B. Blackburn, Jr.
Blackburn & Carter - Houston, TX
Jean M. Flores
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C. - Shareholder - Addison, TX
Jerry Webberman
Jackson Walker L.L.P. - Partner, Austin Office - Austin, TX
Jim D. Bradbury
James D. Bradbury, PLLC - Fort Worth, TX
Joel Russell
Joel Russell Associates - Principal - Northampton, MA
Jonathan B. Cluck
The Nunley Firm - Boerne, TX
Joseph B.C. Fitzsimons
Uhl, Fitzsimons & Jewett, PLLC - Shareholder - San Antonio, TX
Kevin L. Patrick
Patrick, Miller and Noto - Basalt, CO
Kyle Ballard
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C - Of Counsel - Addison, TX
Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C.
- Austin, TX
Michael J. Nasi
Jackson Walker LLP - Partner - Austin, TX
Mountain States Legal Foundation
William Perry Pendley - President and COO - Lakewood, CO
Nick Cramer
The Vertex Companies, Inc. - Senior Project Manager - Irving, TX
Patrick, Miller and Noto
Waterlaw - Denver, CO
Paul Seals
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C. - Shareholder - Austin, TX
Plauche’ & Carr, LLP
- Baton Rouge, LA
Smiley Law Firm, PC
Cynthia Smiley - Attorney/Owner - Austin, TX
Stephen J. Small, Esq.
Law Office of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C. - Cambridge, MA
Susan Armstrong
Armstrong Law - Austin, TX
Thomas Hall
Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Attorney and Counselor - Austin, TX
NRCS Local Offices
Alice Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Alice Service Center - Alice, TX
Beeville Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Beeville Service Center - Beeville, TX
Benavides Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Benavides Service Center - Benavides, TX
Carrizo Springs Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Carrizo Springs Service Center - Carrizo Springs, TX
Cotulla Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Cotulla Service Center - Cotulla, TX
Del Rio Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Del Rio Service Center - Del Rio, TX
Eagle Pass Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Eagle Pass Service Center - Eagle Pass, TX
Edinburg Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Edinburg Service Center - Edinburg, TX
Falfurrias Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Falfurrias Service Center - Falfurrias, TX
Floresville Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Floresville Service Center - Floresville, TX
George West Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - George West Service Center - George West, TX
Goliad Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Goliad Service Center - Goliad, TX
Hebbronville Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Hebbronville Service Center - Hebbronville, TX
Hondo Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Hondo Service Center - Hondo, TX
Kenedy Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Kenedy Service Center - Kenedy, TX
Kingsville Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Kingsville Service Center - Kingsville, TX
Laredo Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Laredo Service Center - Laredo, TX
Pearsall Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Pearsall Service Center - Pearsall, TX
Pleasanton Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Pleasanton Service Center - Pleasanton, TX
Raymondville Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Raymondville Service Center - Raymondville, TX
Refugio Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Refugio, TX
Rio Grande City Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Rio Grande City Service Center - Rio Grande City, TX
Robstown Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Robstown Service Center - Robstown, TX
San Antonio Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - San Antonio Service Center - San Antonio, TX
San Benito Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - San Benito Service Center - San Benito, TX
Sinton Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Sinton Service Center - Sinton, TX
Uvalde Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Uvalde Service Center - Uvalde, TX
Zapata Service Center
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Zapata Service Center - Zapata, TX
Real Estate Attorneys
Alejandro Sostre-Odio
Uhl, Fitzsimons & Jewett, PLLC - Partner - San Antonio, TX
Arthur G. Uhl III
Uhl, Fitzsimons & Jewett, PLLC - Shareholder - San Antonio, TX
Chad M. Upham
Brock Upham Yost, PLLC - Boerne, TX
Grady B. Jolley
BRANSCOMB | PC - San Antonio, TX
Gwendolyn Lacy
Advocacy Matters LLC - Silver City, NM
James M. Saxton
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP - Partner - Little Rock, AR
Julia Lacy Armstrong
Armstrong & Armstrong, P.C. - Partner - Taos, NM
Ken McKay
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC - Shareholder - Houston, TX
Kyle Ballard
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C - Of Counsel - Addison, TX
Mark A. Jacob
Locke Lord LLP - Partner - Houston, TX
Nick Cramer
The Vertex Companies, Inc. - Senior Project Manager - Irving, TX
Patrick Reznik
Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Attorney and Counselor - Austin, TX
Paul Seals
Guida, Slavich & Flores, P.C. - Shareholder - Austin, TX
Plauche’ & Carr, LLP
- Baton Rouge, LA
Ronald L. Holmes
Holmes Firm PC - Attorney - Dallas, TX
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Brenda Muller - Agency Sales Representative - Cayce, SC
Wade Wright
1031 Qualex, LLC - Attorney - Qualified Intermediary - FAYETTEVILLE, AR
State Funding / Technical Resources
Agricultural Loan Guarantee Program - Texas
Mindy Fryer - Grant Coordinator - Austin, TX
Agricultural Water Conservation Loan Program
Tom Entsminger - Texas Water Development Board - Austin, TX
Center for Invasive Species Eradication (CISE)
Texas Water Resources Institute - College Station, TX
Economic Development Program
Burl Carraway - Department Head, Sustainable Forestry - College Station, TX
Ecosystem Service Management
Texas Agrilife Extension - College Station, TX
Edwards Aquifer Protection Program
Phillip Covington - Special Projects Manager - San Antonio, TX
Forest Stewardship Program - Texas
Shane Harrington - Program Leader - College Station, TX
Grassland Restoration Incentive Program
Derek Wiley - OPJV Conservation Delivery Specialist - Throckmorton, TX
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
- College Station, TX
Industrial Hemp Program
Texas Department of Agriculture - Austin, TX
Innovative Water Technologies
Texas Water Development Board - Austin, TX
Interest Rate Reduction Program - Texas
- Austin, TX
Lesser Prairie Chicken Range-wide Conservation Plan
Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies - Boise, ID
LIP Conserving Texas Rivers Funding Series
- Austin, TX
LIP Partners Watershed Funding Series
Arlene Kalmbach - TPWD LIP Coordinator - Austin, TX
Monarch Butterflies & Milkweed in Texas
Janis Bush, Ph.D., The University of Texas at San Antonio - Program Director - San Antonio, TX
National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
- Clemson, SC
Nongame and Rare Species Program
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Austin, TX
Pecos Watershed Conservation Initiative
- Denver, CO
Rainwater Harvesting - Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Dotty Woodson - Extension Program Specialist – Water Resources - Dallas, TX
Southeast Prescribed Fire Update
North Carolina State University Extension Forestry - Raleigh, NC
Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
- Aiken, SC
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
- Austin, TX
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-SeaGrant
Texas Coastal Wetlands - Houston, TX
Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Fort Stockton
Staci Schoenfeldt - District Office Manager - Fort Stockton, TX
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center Uvalde
Kathleen Greer - District Extension Administrator - Uvalde, TX
Texas A&M AgriLife Water Education Network
- College Station, TX
Texas A&M Forest Service
- College Station, TX
Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (NRI)
- College Station, TX
Texas Alliance for Water Conservation (TAWC)
- Lubbock, TX
Texas Coastal Management Program
Texas General Land Office - Austin, TX
Texas Conservation Action Plan
TPWD - Austin, TX
Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP)
Texas Commission On Environmental Quality - Austin, TX
Texas Equine Incentive Program
- Austin, TX
Texas Landowner Incentive Program
Arlene Kalmbach - TPWD LIP Coordinator - Austin, TX
Texas Prairie Wetlands Project (TPWP)
Taylor Abshier - Biologist - Richmond, TX
Texas Private Lands and Habitat Program
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Wildlife Division - Austin, TX
Texas Superstar®
Brent Pemberton - Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center - Overton, TX
Texas Water Resources Institute
- College Station, TX
Texas Wildlife Diversity Program
John Davis - Program Director - Austin, TX
Texas Youth Hunting Program
Chris Mitchell - Director - San Antonio, TX
UNT Quail
- Denton, TX
Whitewater to Bluewater Project
- Arlington, VA
Wildlife Habitat Assessment Program
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Austin, TX
Young Farmer Grant Program
Texas Department of Agriculture - Austin, TX
Young Farmer Interest Rate Reduction Program
- Austin, TX
Tax Advisors
Jason B. Stinson, CCIM
Commercial Realty Services of Alabama, LLC - Managing Member & Principal - Gadsden, AL
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Water Street Solutions
- Peoria, IL
Tax Credit Brokers
Foss & Company
Tax Credit Specialists - San Francisco, CA

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Preserving the Family Woods: Tools to Help Guide Transfer to the Next Generation of Landowners
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This publication is about one thing: securing the future of your woods. To get you the information about how to do that, the paper takes two approaches.& ...

 

TexasLawHelp

TexasLawHelp.org is a website dedicated to providing free, reliable legal information to low-income Texans.  It is part of a broader effort within the national legal aid community to use technology, specifically the Internet, to enhance and expand the delivery of legal aid. In 2016, more than 1.5 million users accessed TexasLawHelp.

TexasLawHelp is a joint effort of legal aid, courts, and nonprofit organizations throughout Texas. It is completely free to use. You will never be charged for using any resources on this website. 

 

Texas Land Trends - Texas landowner changes and trends
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The goal of the Texas Landowner Changes and Trends report is to describe the state's growinf population and changing rural landowners.

 

Multi-Generational Ownership and Planning for Family Owned Properties
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The paper explains many of the common legal tools used by families to manage and/or transfer family lands, and gives a very good overview of the expectations and considerations families will face throughout the process.

 

Forever Donation
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A landowner recently asked us: What is the best way to ensure that the land I donate is not sold? We put the question to the land trust community and it generated quite a bit of activity on the land trust listserv.

 

Estate Planning for Forest Landowners - What Will Become of Your Timberland?
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The purpose of this book is to provide guidelines and assistance to nonindustrial private  forest owners and the legal, tax, financial, insurance, and forestry professionals who serve  them on the application of estate planning techniques to forest properties.

 

Farm Succession plan important piece of the puzzle
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Designing a succession plan for your farm is important in protecting the assets that you've worked so long and hard to acquire.

 

Guardianship and Conservatorships
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One of a parent’s greatest fears involves what will happen to his or her minor children in the event of the parent’s premature death or incapacity.

 

Federal Reforestation Deduction and Amortization

Qualified reforestation expenditures (or afforestation in the case of planting or seeding nonforested land) paid or incurred in a tax year to a maximum of $10,000 per qualified timber property (QTP) can be immediately deducted by all taxpayers, except trusts.

 

REITs and Timber Taxation
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A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a special tax entity investing in real estate (such as shopping malls, apartments, and timberland).

 

What is a Like Kind Exchange?
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Internal Revenue Code section 1031 establishes the rules for like-kind exchanges. This is a tool that can be used by private landowners to defer real estate transfer taxes by exchanging one piece of property for another.

 

Year End Exchanges
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Like-kind exchanges that commence in one tax year and end in a subsequent tax year are sometimes called Year End Exchanges. Year End Exchanges contain some unique benefits and some hidden pitfalls.

 

Qualified Intermediaries
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A qualified intermediary (QI) is a neutral party who may assist a landowner in facilitating a like-kind exchange. The QI enters into a written agreement, known as the exchange agreement, with the landowner.

 

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There are 164 resources serving South Texas Plains Region in the following categories:
map itMap of Succession Planning Organizations & Professionals serving South Texas Plains Region
Conservation Real Estate
American Forest Management
- Charlotte, NC
Hayden Outdoors
- Windsor, CO
Joel Rudolph
- Forester, Real Estate Broker - Nacogdoches, TX
King Land & Water LLC
James King - Fort Davis, TX
Mason, Bruce & Girard
- Blacksburg, VA
Michael Sessions
Creekwood Land & Timber LLC - Professional Forester - Lufkin, TX
Pat Porter
RecLand Realty, LLC - Broker - Monroe, LA
Ricky ONeill
Neeley Forestry Service, Inc. - Certified Wildlife Biologist and Certified Forester - Camden, AR
Stacy W. Jackson
Jackson Real Estate Professionals, LLC - Owner - Winnsboro, TX
Texas Conservation Connection (TCC)
Carolyn Vogel and Cynthia Inman - Co-founders - Austin, TX
Estate Planners
Aemma Womack McMurrey
A. McMurrey Law Firm, PLLC - Attorney at Law - Bastrop, TX
Allen B. Craig, III
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP - Houston, TX
Andrews Kurth LLP
Terri Lacy - Houston, TX
Bill Atwood, MBA, CFE, CFF, CPA
- Red Rock, TX
Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins, P.C.
Jerry M. Scroggins, Jr. - Houston, TX
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Charles W. Hall - Houston, TX
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
Lawrence J. Pirtle - Of Counsel - Houston, TX
Kurt Andreason
Andreason Law Firm - Attorney at Law - Sugar Land, TX
Louis M. Ditta
Cenatiempo & Ditta LLP - Houston, TX
MacIntyre & McCulloch, LLP
W. Cameron McCulloch, Jr. - Houston, TX
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Mayer Brown LLP
M. Marvin Katz - Houston, TX
Michael R. Tibbets
De Lange, Hudspeth, McConnell & Tibbets, LLP - Houston, TX
Morris Ostrom
Jason Ostrom - Houston, TX
R. Hal Moorman
Moorman Tate Haley Upchurch & Yates, LLP - Brenham, TX
Rodney C. Koenig
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. - Of Counsel - Houston, TX
Roger Q Beck
Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins - Houston, TX
Stefnee D. Ashlock
Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins - Houston, TX
Stephen T. Dyer
Baker Botts L.L.P. - Houston, TX
Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, P.C.
Paul Daniel Strug - Houston, TX
Winstead PC
Kyle Watson - Managing Shareholder - The Woodlands, TX
Estate Planning Attorneys
Aemma Womack McMurrey
A. McMurrey Law Firm, PLLC - Attorney at Law - Bastrop, TX
Alan V. Ytterberg
Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP - Houston, TX
Andrew J. Aelvoet
The Nunley Firm - Boerne, TX
Candace Windel
Windel Prewett PLLC - Houston, TX
Cassie Gresham
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
Celeste C. Lawton
Norton Rose Fulbright - Houston, TX
Danny Ray Boon
- Dallas, TX
David Braun
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
Donna L. Courville
Boutin Jones Inc. - Of Counsel - Sacramento, CA
Donna Peck
Sprouse Shrader Smith PC - Amarillo, TX
Duncan E. Osborne
Osborne, Helman, Knebel & Scott, LLP - Partner - Austin, TX
Elizabeth Burney
Drought, Drought & Bobbitt, L.L.P. - San Antonio, TX
George A. Hrdlicka
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, P.C. - Houston, TX
Gwendolyn Lacy
Advocacy Matters LLC - Silver City, NM
Husch Blackwell LLP
- Dallas, TX
Jack P. Eckels
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, P.C. - Houston, TX
James E. Brill, P.C.
- Houston, TX
Jennie Michelle Hyatt
Hyatt Law Firm LLC - Attorney At Law - Nacogdoches, TX
Jonathan B. Cluck
The Nunley Firm - Boerne, TX
Joseph C. Sleeth, Jr.
Norton Rose Fulbright - Houston, TX
Kirk Randolph Wilson
Three Hughes Landing - Spring, TX
Kristi Franklin Hyatt
Cotton Bledsoe Tighe & Dawson, PC - Midland, TX
Larry George
Crain, Caton & James, PC - Houston, TX
Margaret Menicucci
Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Austin, TX
Mark A. Jacob
Locke Lord LLP - Partner - Houston, TX
Matthew Brysacz
Brysacz Law Firm, PLLC - Estate Planning Attorney - San Antonio, TX
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Michael J. Cenatiempo
Cenatiempo & Ditta LLP - Of Counsel - Houston, TX
Morris Ostrom
Jason Ostrom - Houston, TX
Paige K. Ben-Yaacov
Baker Botts - Houston, TX
R. Eric Viehman
Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP - Houston, TX
Richard John Kohlbrand
- Huntsville, TX
Ronald W. Kesterson
Baker Botts L.L.P. - Houston, TX
Sage Advisors, LLC
- West Chester, PA
Sarah Patel Pacheco
Crain, Caton & James, P.C. - Houston, TX
Scott A. Schepps
Jackson Walker - Partner - Houston, TX
Simon Sidamon-Eristof
Kalbian Hagerty LLP - of Counsel - Washington, DC
Susan Armstrong
Armstrong Law - Austin, TX
Thomas Hall
Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Attorney and Counselor - Austin, TX
Winstead PC
Stephanie Loomis-Price - Houston, TX
Yolanda C. Knull
Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP - Houston, TX
Financial Planners
Bill Atwood, MBA, CFE, CFF, CPA
- Red Rock, TX
Russell Marshall
South Star Wealth Management - Managing Director - Victoria, TX
Teddy Reynolds, RF
Reynolds Forestry Consulting & Real Esta - Teddy Reynolds - Magnolia, AR
Investment Advisers / CPAs
Bill Atwood, MBA, CFE, CFF, CPA
- Red Rock, TX
Land Trusts
American Farmland Trust
- Washington, DC
BC Nature
Federation of BC Naturalists - North Vancouver, BC
Brenda Schick
Singing Stream Conservation Consultants - Principal - La Jolla, CA
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ottawa Valley Chapter
- Ottawa, ON
Cibolo Conservancy
- Boerne, TX
Conservancy Hornby Island
- Hornby Island , BC
Delta Waterfowl Foundation
- Bismarck, ND
Fraser Headwaters Alliance
- Dunster , BC
Fraser Valley Conservancy
- Abbotsford, BC
Gabriola Land and Trails Trust
Tom Cameron - President - Gabriola Island, BC
Gorgas Science Foundation
- Brownsville, TX
GrassrootsCarbon-PastureMap
PastureMap - San Antonio, TX
Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas
- San Antonio, TX
Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust
- Seguin, TX
Hill Country Conservancy
Frank Davis - Chief Conservation Officer - Austin, TX
Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust
- Washington, DC
Islands Trust Fund
- Victoria, BC
John Sanderson
Center for Collaborative Conservation - Director - Fort Collins, CO
Kawartha Heritage Conservancy
- Peterborough, ON
Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
- Kingston, ON
Land Legacy
- Tulsa, OK
Land Trust Alliance
- Washington, DC
Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia
Sheila Harrington - Programs Director - Victoria, BC
Malaspina Land Conservancy
Janet Alred - President - Powell River, BC
Michael Hart
LandVest, Inc. - Senior Appraiser - Boston, MA
Mitigation Futures Conservancy
- McKinney, TX
Nanaimo Area Land Trust
- Conservation Covenants Coordinator - Nanaimo, BC
Native Prairies Association of Texas
- Manchaca, TX
Nature Conservancy of Canada
National Office - Toronto, ON
Nature Manitoba
Roger Turenne - President - Winnipeg, MB
Nature Trust of British Columbia
- BC Conservation Land Manager - Vancouver, BC
Nature Vancouver
Daniel Overmyer - Vancouver, BC
North American Land Trust
- Chadds Ford, PA
Open Space Institute
Jennifer Grossman - Vice President New York Land Program - New York, NY
Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation
- Tallahassee, FL
Pelican Coast Conservancy
Walter C Ernest, IV - Director of Operation - Mobile, AL
Pender Islands Conservancy
Sylvia Pincott - Pender Island, BC
Quadra Island Conservancy and Stewardship Society
George Barabas - Heriot Bay, BC
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Missoula, MT
Sage Advisors, LLC
- West Chester, PA
Salt Spring Island Conservancy
Linda Gilkeson - Executive Director - Salt Spring Island, BC
Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation Habitat Trust Fund
- Moose Jaw, SK
Savary Island Land Trust Society
Liz Webster - Executive Director - Lund, BC
Silva Forest Foundation
Susan Hammond - Slocan Park, BC
Societe de Protection Fonciere de Saint-Adele
Jean-Louis Poirier - President - Saint-Adele, QC
Southern Conservation Trust
Chris Doane - President/CEO - Fayetteville, GA
Sportsmen's National Land Trust
- Agawam, MA
Terrafirma RRG LLC
- Burlington, VT
Texas Agricultural Land Trust
- San Antonio, TX
Texas Land Conservancy
- Austin, TX
Texas Land Trust Council
Lori Olson - Executive Director - Wimberly, TX
The Barn Group
- Brooks, GA
The Nature Conservancy, Texas Field Office
- San Antonio, TX
The Trustees of Reservations
- Boston, MA
The Valley Land Fund
- McAllen, TX
Trout Unlimited
Chris Wood - President and Chief Executive Officer - Arlington, VA
Trust for Public Land, Texas Office
- Dallas, TX
Waterloo Region Nature
- Waterloo, ON
Watershed Land Trust
- Belton, MO
Wetlands America Trust
- Memphis, TN
Qualified Intermediaries for 1031 Exchanges
1031 Exchange Corporation
- Austin, TX
Asset Preservation, Inc.
- Roseville, CA
Atlas 1031 Exchange, LLC
Andy Gustafson - Certified Exchange Specialist - Naples, FL
Craig Brown, Esq.
Investment Property Exchange Services, Inc. - Senior Vice President / Regional Manager - Dallas, TX
Exeter 1031 Exchange Services, LLC
Elizabeth Harris - Vice President, Marketing & Business Development - San Diego, CA
Federal Exchange Services, LLC.
- San Antonio, TX
First American Exchange Company
Janna Perret - VP/Central Region Manager - Mandeville, LA
Greg A. Lehrmann
Asset Preservation Inc., Texas - North Texas Division Manager/VP - Austin, TX
James M. Saxton
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP - Partner - Little Rock, AR
Stephen Davis
Safe Harbor Asset Management - Huntington, NY
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Brenda Muller - Agency Sales Representative - Cayce, SC
Sydney A. Miller, CES®
Vice-President - The Texas 1031 Exchange Company - Seguin, TX
Texas Conservation Connection (TCC)
Carolyn Vogel and Cynthia Inman - Co-founders - Austin, TX
The Texas 1031 Exchange Company
Wayne H. Roitsch, CES®, President - Certified Exchange Specialist - Seguin, TX
Wade Wright
1031 Qualex, LLC - Attorney - Qualified Intermediary - FAYETTEVILLE, AR
Tax Advisors
Jason B. Stinson, CCIM
Commercial Realty Services of Alabama, LLC - Managing Member & Principal - Gadsden, AL
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Water Street Solutions
- Peoria, IL
Tax Law Attorneys
Cassie Gresham
Principal, Attorney and Counselor - Braun & Gresham, PLLC - Dripping Springs, TX
Donna Peck
Sprouse Shrader Smith PC - Amarillo, TX
Husch Blackwell LLP
- Dallas, TX
Justin W. Clark
Davis, Gerald & Cremer, P.C. - Midland, TX
Maxine Aaronson
Law Offices of Maxine Aaronson - Principal - Dallas, TX
Paige K. Ben-Yaacov
Baker Botts - Houston, TX
Scott A. Schepps
Jackson Walker - Partner - Houston, TX
Simon Sidamon-Eristof
Kalbian Hagerty LLP - of Counsel - Washington, DC
Stephen J. Small, Esq.
Law Office of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C. - Cambridge, MA
Winstead PC
Stephanie Loomis-Price - Houston, TX