In December 2021, the America the Beautiful Interagency Working Group provided the first annual report on the America the Beautiful campaign (Year One Report). The report highlights efforts undertaken across the key areas identified in the original America the Beautiful report and identifies next steps in each of these areas to further the
Today the Biden Administration released a preliminary report to the National Climate Task Force titled Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful. The report provides a vision and plan to preserve at least 30% of the country’s land and waters by 2030 with a locally led America the Beautiful campaign.
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In a previous post, we noted that the Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) was considering revisions to conservation easement tax credit regulations, and on March 17, 2021, those revisions were adopted. Rule 39-22-104(3)(g), Rule 39-22-304(2)(f) and Rule 39-22-522 will become effective on April 30, 2021. As a reminder, the amendments are intended to conform the regulations to House Bill 19-1264 signed into law on June 3, 2019, which included a number of substantive revisions to the conservation easement enabling statute (C.R.S. § 38-30.5-101, et seq.) and the conservation easement tax credit program in Colorado.
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On December 7, 2020, the Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) issued a general information letter [Colo. Dep’t of Revenue, Gen. Info. Letter GIL-20-003, 12/07/20] regarding the eligibility of a mutual ditch company to claim a Colorado conservation easement tax credit, except when a state governmental entity is a shareholder. CDOR determined that a mutual ditch
Colorado Open Lands (COL) announced yesterday that the organization completed its 500th conservation project in Colorado this month. COL has now conserved more than 585,000 acres in Colorado. Congratulations to COL and to its dedicated staff, Board members and volunteers on this impressive milestone!
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) reports that 26 conservation measures supported by TPL in the 2020 election were approved by voters, amounting to nearly $3.7 billion in funding for land conservation, parks, climate resiliency and habitat. Four of these ballot measures were located in the Rocky Mountain region in Colorado and Montana.
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