Planning
and Siting Your House: A Guidebook by Dutchess Land Conservancy
This book presents some guidelines to help you site and build a
home to harmonize with the natural landscape.
8 pgs.,
color illustrations, softcover
Hudson River Valley Rural
Design Guidebook
by Columbia Land Conservancy and Dutchess Land Conservancy
This guidebook illustrates practical and creative techniques
that should be used to implement a vision of dynamic rural
communities which continue to grow and evolve while preserving
their historic beauty, agricultural productivity, and sense of
place.
24 pgs.,
color illustrations, softcover, $12.25
Preserving Family Lands: Essential Tax Strategies for the
Landowner
by Stephen J. Small, Attorney at Law
The purpose of this book is to alert landowners to the nature
and extent of potential tax and land-saving problems that may
face them and their families, and to suggest possible solutions.
Small provides essential tax strategies for anyone who thinks
they may be leaving land to their children, inheriting land from
their
parents, or have land they care about and don’t want to lose.
99 pgs.,
softcover, $11.75
Preserving Family Lands: Book II
by Stephen J. Small, Attorney at Law
The next book in the Preserving Family Lands series, Book II
covers a few of the same issues, such as conservation easements
and the basic estate tax rules, but it also covers the next
generation of planning.
119
pgs., softcover, $11.75
Design
Guide for Rural Roads
by Dutchess Land Conservancy
This guide offers design recommendations for both new and
existing rural roads, sidewalks and parking areas, bicycle paths
and breakdown lanes. It also deals with the nitty-gritty of road
layout and construction, outlining specifications for surface
courses, catch basins, and other fundamental elements of road
design.
182
pgs., illustrations, softcover, $29,95
Voices
of the Land
Foreward by Michael Pollan
A visual and written tribute, Voices of the Land brings together
a diverse community who speaks out for greater stewardship of
our landscape. The authors, whether ecologist, farmer, chef,
mushroom gatherer, architect, or writer, share of their own
unique relationships to the land. Together with evocative
photographs that detail the intricacies of nature, Voices of the
Land encourages homeowners to be responsive to the existing
character and ecology of the land as it becomes a home. Voices
of the Land was commissioned by the Dutchess Land Conservancy
and royalties from the book will support land conservation
efforts.
84 pgs.,
softcover, $
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