"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Good advice, but be very carefull with these folks - they can be a
real handfull to deal with.

You mean the Nature Conservancy?

Yep - it's a long story - basically, I wanted to put my forest and
meadow property in a long term trust agreement, but the language in
the agreement was such that I would have lost access to my own land
while I was still alive and kicking.

I'm not saying they don't do good work and maybe it was just the folks
I was dealing with, but I never went back to them after that.

I worked an open land deal with the state instead.

Well, they sometimes have to deal with some heavy hitters. Maybe they don't
adjust their procedures for normal people sometimes.

I wish I recalled the name of the book I read, about shore erosion and
overdevelopment. They described a place in NJ where the town wanted to sell
a huge chunk of beach/wetland, but would only sell to developers. They
didn't put this in writing. Rather, they simply refused to meet with anyone
who didn't bill themselves as a developer. If I recall, the town was hoping
for a hotel or something. Nature Conservancy set up a dummy corporation and
did whatever was necessary to complete the ruse. They snookered the town
board, bought the land, took off their masks and said "Hah!". The legal
wrapper they created was pretty much bulletproof.