Books

(all prices include tax and postage)

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.

14 pgs., color illustrations, softcover $14.00

Hudson River Valley Rural Design Guidebook By: Columbia Land Conservancy & 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 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. This book contains 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 it.

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, Preserving Family Lands 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

Conservation Options, A Landowner's Guide By: Land Trust Alliance

This book provides straightforward information about the ways you can protect your land and about the tax benefits that can result-whether you want to pass land along to your children or donate it for the use of all.

54 pgs., Softcover, $9.50

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