welcome
“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”
elizabeth wroblicka
Elizabeth Wroblicka is an attorney who specializes in land conservation transactions, protecting family farms and forests, easement amendments, enforcement, and nonprofit management, including land trust accreditation and mergers. She works with landowners, land trusts, government agencies, corporations, foundations, and coalitions on a wide array of land conservation issues. Since 1996, she has been a tireless advocate for conservation serving as a land trust board member, staff, attorney in private practice, consultant on national conservation easement defense issues, and a teacher at national and regional land conservation conferences. As a volunteer and community organizer, she started the first community garden in Napa. Past board service includes: Chair, Massachusetts Easement Defense Subcommittee of MLTC, The Putnam Conservation Institute, The Trustees of Reservations Corporate Trustees, Martha's Vineyard Conservation Society, the Northampton Zoning Board of Appeals, and the Bay Area Open Space Council. She was a staff member of The Land Trust Alliance, Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council, and Land Trust of Napa County. Attorney Wroblicka is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and California. Education: Cornell University, BS; University of San Francisco School of Law, JD; Vermont Law School, Masters in Environmental Law, cum laude.
links
- Client endorsements
- Protecting the View, Saving Land Magazine, Spring, 2011
- Preparing for Future Litigation of Conservation Easements,
Land Trust Alliance, Exchange, Winter, 2005
contact
Elizabeth Wroblicka
Land Conservation Associates
Northampton, Massachusetts
916.712.4879
elizabeth@landconservationassociates.com
services
land and conservation easement acquisition
- Project assistance: Negotiate and provide legal review of transaction documents including conservation easements, option agreements, subordination agreements, life estates, deeds; Community Preservation Act and Chapter 61 scenarios; conservation buyer transactions; secure acquisition funding, accreditation, nonprofit management
- Representation of landowners: Preservation of family lands; estate planning; tax benefits for charitable contributions
- Structure land conservation transactions: Fair market value purchases; bargain sales and donations; public agency partnerships; limited development; co-holding and multiple ownership scenarios; landscape scale collaboratives
stewardship
- Establish protocols for monitoring, baseline documentation, and land conservation records management
- Conservation easement monitoring and landowner relations
- Conservation easement amendment and enforcement
- Fee property ownership issues: encroachments, boundary disputes, public access
organizational development and nonprofit management
- Board member training: legal responsibilities and liabilities
- Obtaining and Maintaining tax exempt status
- Strategic conservation planning
- Assistance in applying for land trust accreditation and registering for conservation defense
- Land trust mergers and dissolutions