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Resources to help you get started

There are many resources available that you can help you get started with legacy planning, or that you can share with a fellow landowner, client, or landowner group. Below we've included links to publications, media, and websites that you may find useful.

Legacy Planning publications

Stories Trees Have to Tell: Black Land Stewardship and Legacy in the Northeast
Cornell University and University of Massachusetts-Amherst publication profiling the stewardship and legacy stories of Black landowners in New York State and New England. Photography by Lisa Godfrey. 
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Protecting Your Legacy
University of Massachusetts Amherst publication about forest legacy planning in New York state. 
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Their Land, Their Legacy
 A guide meant to help those who interact with landowners inform the decisions landowners are making about their land’s future ownership and use.
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Using a Will to Pass on Your Land
This booklet discusses strategies to use your will as a tool to determine the future of your land.

"Love Your Land? Make a Plan" Brochure
Brochure contains a brief description of legacy planning with landowner case studies and “10 Steps” you can take to get your plan started. 
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Woodland Legacy Planning Business Card
Business cards containing our yourlegacy.org web address. 

Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
National Policy Analysis document (#569) that provides an overview of conservation easements and their use, by Dana Joel Gattuso.

Your Family Land: Legacy or Memory?
Green Valley Institute's introduction to protecting family land.
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Preserving the Family woods: tools to help guide transfer to the next generation of landowners
Introduces forest landowners to the decisions, discussions, legal structures and tools important to successful succession planning. USDA Forest NA-IN-04-08. 
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Estate Planning Options for Family Forests: what will become of your timberland?
By William Siegel, Harry Haney Jr., and John Greene. Introduces forest landowners to estate planning including Federal estate and gift tax law with a focus on forest land ownership, forms of business organization for forest landowners, and general estate planning tools. USDA Forest Service GTR SRS-112. 
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An Introduction to Estate Planning
By Dinnie Sloman. Introduces forest landowners to the terminology and methodology involved in estate planning. 
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Basic Estate Planning
By Lynn Smith. A brief, readable summary of estate planning that looks at wills, living wills, medical powers of attorney, durable powers of attorney, and trusts. 

Forest Stewardship: Estate Planning
A six-page introduction to estate planning from Pennsylvania State University, College of Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extension. 

Planning for Woodlands in your estate: sharing property with children
by T.J. McEvoy.
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Media

Your Land, Your Legacy Video
Cornell Cooperative Extension video about forest legacy planning in New York State. ​

Tools

Legacy Conversation Starters
A guide that may be used to help start a legacy planning conversation with a landowner.
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Forest Story Cards
A series of photographs (individual cards) related to forestry that may be used to
foster conversations about landowner values. Please contact Shorna Allred for information about purchasing forest story cards.
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Websites

Succession and Estate Planning
The University of Florida Extension site explains current inheritance tax law and how it affects nonindustrial private landowners. It also includes links to other sources of information and supporting documents. 

Ties to the Land
Oregon State University’s legacy planning site. 
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Conservation Easements
Land Trust Alliance site providing a succinct description of approaches for conserving land and other considerations. 

Estate Planning Options for Family Forests
USDA Forest Service site containing planning resources, including suggestions for planning family meetings, planning options, creating an estate plan, tax and estate planning, action steps in legacy planning.

National Conservation Easement Database
Updated map of conservation easements by state and easement holder.

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