1. Introduction and Overview Ensuring Compliance - Landowner Outreach and Monitoring

2. Easement Stewardship Context Easement Monitoring Landowner Relations Baseline Documentation Violation Resolutions Amendments Record Keeping

3. Stewardship Policies- Set the Stage MRT Easement Policies Easement Amendments policy Violation Resolution policy Recordkeeping policy

4. Easement Monitoring Insuring compliance Early detection Landowner relationships Reserved rights & approvals Tracking outcomes

5. Review Easements for Resolution Tools Grantee’s Conditions of Approval Mediation / Arbitration Grantee’s Remedies

6. Build Strong Landowner Relations Check policies Set up procedures Establish a primary contact Review your monitoring forms Set the tone

7. Partnership/Problem-Solving Message or Policing/Enforcement Message Annual visit or Monitoring Visit or Inspection Follow-up or Enforcement Resolution or Compliance Checking or Policing Conversation or Negotiation Creative problem solving or Litigation Upholding the conservation easement or Conformance Concerns or Violations Questions or Concerns Deter or Prevent Identify or Detect Scheduled or Assigned Possible or Suspected Set The Tone

8. Landowner Outreach - Partnering with Landowners Restoration partnerships Membership events Land Acquisitions celebrations Easement tours Easement landowner event or workshops

9. Easement Property Tours Whiskey Creek Organic – Duncan Island

10. Prairie Tour

11. Land Acquisition Celebrations

12. Easement Landowner Events

13. Restoration Tours

14. Celebrate Your Successes

15. References Land Trust Alliance, Land Trust Standards and Practices, Land Trust Alliance, revised 2004. Bouplon, Renee J., and Benda Lind, Conservation Easement Stewardship, Land Trust Alliance, 2008. Hugh Brown and Andrew Pitz, Caring for Land Trust Properties Land Trust Alliance, 2008. http://tlc.lta.org/courses/conservation-easement- stewardship