If you are fishing around for CONSERVATION TAX CREDITS, you want the right guide.
Eco-Max
Metric-Based Model
The ECO-MAX® model helps landowners and developers quantify the value of conservation easements, reduce development costs, and enhance property value through data-driven design, financial analysis, and strategic outreach.
Other ECO-MAX Metrics:
Gross Conservation Tax Credit Benefit
Internal Rate of Return with Conservation + Development
Present Value per $ of investment with Conservation + Development
Net Present Value Comparison
Other: Natural Capital Assets
Key Considerations for Choosing the right guide:
▪ Experience in Conservation Easement Drafting
▪ Knowledge of Conservation Values
▪ Understanding of Public Benefit
▪ Peer Review Experience
▪ Familiarity with Relevant Laws and Regulations
▪ Ability to Create Defensible Documentation
Our Approach
By recognizing and investing in nature, we create new opportunities for generating income and tax advantages. Our team includes top experts—legal professionals, foundation and conservation specialists, appraisers, and PhD-level scientists and professors—who carefully prepare conservation purposes, public benefit, and easement documents. These documents are thorough, reliable, and can withstand expert review. Our detailed and science-based approach ensures we provide solid evidence and research, giving our clients confidence that the value we assign is a fair and accurate estimate of market value and natural capital assets.
Our Risk Management Model
▪ Clearly Defining Your Conservation Purpose
▪ Establishing Significant Public Benefit
▪ Drafting a Strong Easement Document
▪ Embracing Peer Review
▪ Ensuring Defensibility
Many of our projects also create privately funded, world-class multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, educational, research and conservation sites and/or high value scholarship, fellowship, internship and endowment opportunities. Therefore, creating a unique group of stakeholders that include property owners, academic/scientific collaborators and non-governmental organizations.
Disclaimer:
Land South Consulting Group (LSCG) nor any of its affiliates do not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice. You should consult your own tax, legal and accounting advisors before engaging in any transaction. Neither LSCG nor any of its affiliates are registered, or intend to register, as an Investment Adviser under the U.S. Investment Advisors Act of 1940, as amended, or similar laws of any other country or jurisdiction. LSCG does not engage in activities that could subject it (or any affiliate or subsidiary) to any regulation under relevant securities or investment adviser regulations. LSCG is not a broker or dealer of securities and does not engage in brokering or dealing activities. The information provided by LSCG does not constitute any offer or a recommendation to buy, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any particular security or other financial product.