Comprehensive Protection -- Resources for Individuals

Individuals play as vital a part in saving whole places as organizations or agencies.   By maintaining beloved places over time, teaching communities about their natural and historic marvels, organizing for saves when they are threatened, and finding ways to protect their character for the future, people across the country are preserving America's cultural landscapes.

• Find a Statewide and Local Partner
• Find a land trust 
• American Farmland Trust
• The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Saving a Threatened Cultural Landscape

• Bird Homestead case study
• "Buying Time for Heritage: Saving an Endangered Historic Property", J. Myrick Howard

Protecting Your Own Property

• Thomas Barn case study
• Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm case study
• Resources for Historic Homeowners
• Conservation and Historic Preservation Easements (free download)
• National Trust Easement Resources