There are several strategies available through Land Trusts to landowners who want to preserve their cherished lands. Occasionally, a landowner may donate or sell parcels of land to a Land Trust in order to place the land entirely in the Trust’s permanent care. More often, however, a landowner will donate to a Land Trust a conservation easement, which places protective restrictions on future uses of land. The conservation easement also assigns responsibility to the Land Trust to enforce those protections forever, even when the ownership of the land changes.