Land Conservation

Feasibility Determination

A landowner considering a conservation easement first needs practical advice on whether one is feasible or not, where to get help, and how to get started. A phone call to Agland will save time and frustration. If the potential is slim, we’ll describe why, but if there is potential, we will come to your ranch, farm, or forest for a day or two on your schedule. This will allow us to better understand your needs, identify working strategies, and document a procedure to take you through it.

Easement Advocacy

Agland only advocates for agricultural working-lands landowners. Our role as a conservation easement facilitator is to protect all of a landowner’s interests, but our particular practical expertise is in the guarding of both the economic integrity and uninfringed management of working farm, ranch, of forest properties through the conservation easement process, while optimizing financial returns to landowners.

In most cases, we engage working-lands landowners interested in selling a conservation easement by a performance agreement, and are paid only if the terms of the agreement are achieved. Agland gets paid at the time the landowner is paid for the completed transaction.

Business Systems & Strategies

  • Administrative logistics

  • Closely held & family business strategic planning

  • Talent management

  • Project & enterprise logistics

  • Business succession planning

  • Ag & forestry feasibility determination and development

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Agland assists families and other closely held agricultural forest and landowners wishing to engage in or professionalize resource-land based business. Agland helps families become great families, and board governed entities become great organizations with clear direction, endurance and continuity of purpose, and the management directives to achieve these across succession.

We help owners find their future then act to achieve it. This may include strategic focusing, preparing succession, championing development, building leaders and loyalty, or all of it.

Agland is dialed-in to the problems of resource land business succession, regulation, production and human resources. Agland is a company immersed with real life experience and dedicated to the practical conservation of agronomist husbandry, families and other close ownerships, and land productivity; both economic and ecologic, as they are inexorably tied. We achieve this by planning, then by assisting in developing repeatable but simple systems that keep people taken care of and pulling together; the essence of business success.

Land Management - Land Conservation Planning - Project Planning

Farm, Forest, and Ranch Management

Please contact us for more information or to make an appointment for a free phone consultation.

Project Planning

We also provide specific project planning for reforestation, brush renovation, stream and riparian restoration, water systems or road/bridge designs from conception to contract specifications.

Comprehensive Planning

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Restoration Planning

Water Systems & Grazing Design

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A detailed map showing the Mill Creek Control Project, including proposed and existing water lines, fences, tanks, and contour lines within a 73-acre area. Key features are marked with symbols and labels, including size and location of tanks, roads,
A detailed map of Valley View Ranch showing phase II riparian and cross fencing, existing fences, proposed gates, primary roads, planned pasture acres, and riparian conservation easements, with color-coded areas and lines indicating different feature

Road Engineering & Construction Layout

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