A conservation easement lets you keep owning, living on, and working your land while protecting it from development — forever. Broad Water holds that promise, and the endowment that keeps it funded.
A conservation easement is a voluntary agreement that permanently limits development on your property — while you keep owning it, living on it, and working it.
You decide what stays protected. You can still farm, hunt, harvest timber, build the home your family needs, sell the land, or pass it to your heirs. What changes is that the right to subdivide and develop is retired — for good — so the land you love can’t be turned into something else after you’re gone.
Protecting your land does not mean giving it up. With a Broad Water easement, you keep nearly everything:
Most landowners protect their property one of two ways. We’ll help you weigh which is right for you, with no pressure either way.
You keep owning your land and place a permanent agreement on it that limits development. Broad Water holds and defends that agreement forever.
Best if you want to keep your land in the family and protect it at the same time.
You donate the property itself — in whole, in part, or through your estate — and Broad Water stewards it permanently as conserved land.
Best if you’re ready to pass the land on and want it cared for in perpetuity.
Not sure which fits? That’s exactly the conversation we’re here for — and your tax and legal advisors should be part of it too.
Protecting land is a deliberate, unhurried process. Here is how it goes with Broad Water.
Tell us about your land and what you hope to protect. No commitment, no cost.
We visit, learn what makes your property special, and document its conservation values.
You decide what is protected and what you keep. The easement is written around your goals.
The agreement is recorded with the deed, binding every future owner of the land.
We monitor the land every year, in perpetuity — funded by a dedicated endowment, not a promise.
The land you cared for stays the way you knew it — for your grandchildren and theirs.
Donated easements may qualify for federal income-tax deductions and estate-tax relief. Your advisors will confirm what applies to you.
Protection that can’t be undone by the next owner, the next market, or the next generation.
An accredited steward visits every year and defends the easement — backed by a real endowment, so the promise is kept.
You may have heard about “syndicated” conservation easements marketed as investments with inflated deductions. Broad Water does not participate in abusive syndicated transactions, full stop. Every easement we hold is a genuine conservation outcome, valued honestly and held to Land Trust Alliance standards and IRS rules.
When you protect land with us, you can be confident it is protected for the right reasons — and that it will stand up to scrutiny for as long as it stands.
Every property is different, and so is every family’s goal for it. Tell us a little about your land and we’ll walk you through the options — no pressure, no cost.
The land outlives all of us. Protecting it is how a family’s care for a place becomes permanent.