Land Trust of Virginia

Land Trust of Virginia partners with private landowners who wish to voluntarily protect and preserve their working farmland or natural lands with significant historic, scenic, and ecological value for the benefit of our community using conservation easements. A conservation easement is a private legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust, such as LTV, that permanently protects land and its conservation values. Together, the landowner and the land trust craft the legal easement document to protect the land’s significant historic, natural, and cultural attributes. The landowner still owns the property, but the conservation easement is a permanent legal document that gets recorded with the property’s deed and travels with the property even when the property changes ownership.