Request MSPO's current list of other Guidebooks, which you should consider acquiring. Options clarifies how nearly anyone can decide the future of their land, saving or even making money along the way. The tools make you wonder why anyone would actually sell land, when that simply gives away all the control, pride, and profit. Creative Land Development, Bridge to the Future , Robert A. Lemire. He then explains how one community took back the right to determine its own future, and why the result satisfied everyone.
Any individual can nominate land for acquisition, too.
Get the complete nomination materials. If not, the government will gladly accept either the land or the money after the landowner dies. It's not quite that grim, but close. Saving America's Countryside , Samuel N. Stokes. Read this, and you'll believe you can do it yourself, or at least wake up others to help.