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Many folks are money poor but land wealthy.
Decreasing the valuation of property, by creating conservation easements, gives families the opportunity to preserve their entire landholdings for their heirs as well as providing significant income tax and estate tax savings. This means that heirs are often forced to liquidate the estate at less than market value just to meet this deadline. Often the difference is sufficient for families to find little or no estate tax is owed. My apologies go out to Tim Feller of Sierra Pacific Industries for pluralizing his name in last week's edition. I double-checked my notes, but this spelling error got past me.