| Course ID: | JURI 4800S/6800S. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 16 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Land Conservation Clinic |
Course
Description: | The legal foundations of private land conservation, as well as the policy and environmental basis for this work. Students will explore conservation easements, the role of land trusts, the ecological and public benefits of protected land, and ways to enhance the impact of private conservation. |
| Oasis Title: | Land Conservation Clinic |
| Nontraditional Format: | Practicum. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Provide students with a substantive course in private land conservation law and its environmental basis and benefits
2. Provide students an understanding of the legal, scientific, and policy framework for this work
3. Develop strategies for and experience in collaborating with scientists, experts, government agency personnel, nonprofit staff, and landowners to achieve conservation goals
4. Provide students with an overview of the role of land trusts, conservation easements, and enforcement and management challenges
This is linked with JURI 4801S as a clinic. |
| Topical Outline: | • Statutory and policy basis of land conservation
• Key federal, state, and local conservation programs and strategies
• Regulatory and incentive programs
• Tax considerations
• Nonprofit law considerations
• Environmental impact of land conservation
• Relevant environmental science
• Public benefits of land conservation
• Developing landowner relationships
• Drafting and amending conservation easement
• Monitoring easements
• Enforcing conservation easements and assuring permanence
• Interaction with other environmental goals and laws
• Connection between protecting land and water quality/supply
• Climate change considerations and connection
• Environmental justice considerations
• Students will also engage in traditional clinical reflection through periodic journals, group meetings, and focused interviews with the instructor |