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Sonnenberg drafts bill to settle conservation easement conflict

Conservation Easement Land Theft

Conservation easement attorney says email shows state officials defrauded landowners

Bill to Fix Conservation Easements Runs Into Trouble Over Costs

Conservation easements reparations advance through Senate ag committee

Legislation to resolve conservation easements debacle introduced in Senate

“This has been a corrupt situation from day one,” says Senator

Conservation Easement Transparency Bill Introduced

Sonnenberg, Pelton Hope for Final Resolution on Conservation Easement Tax Credits in 2020 Session

Conservation easement group to recommend millions be paid in reparations

Working Group Tries to Untangle Web of Conservation Easements

How The Nature Conservancy Secures Government Land Grabs

$1.9 million Great Outdoors Colorado Grant Aids Nature Conservancy and CO Cattlemen’s Ag Land Trust in restricting 25,000 acres

1264 Working Group Leaves No Room to Subvert Legislative Intent

Pain Over Preservation

Coloradans Confounded

Easement Program Failures Penalize Taxpayers

Senator Criticizes Colorado Department of Conservation Director

Legislators unimpressed with conservation easement “working group” report

 Senator voices frustration with ongoing injustice

Conservation Easement Program is a “Bait and Switch”

Colorado legislators still trying to rein in Conservation Easement Oversight Commission 

Program trying to rebound from December audit 

Conservation Easement Abuses Targeted by House Bill Trio

Time to Account for State’s Troubled Conservation Easements

Lawyers for the Colorado Attorney General’s office went back on their word

Proposal to provide relief to farmers and ranchers failed once again in the House.

Colorado Department of Revenue’s boot heel on the necks of land owners 

Legislators attempt to fix problems with state’s controversial conservation easement program.

Conservation Easement Battle Leaves Many Farmers and Ranchers in Debt

“Misconception and misinformation” are words used to describe the Colorado conservation easement program

Group Sues State Over Conservation Easements

Fighting the state shouldn’t come to the point where families are destroyed

Hypocrisy in the Colorado Statehouse reached epic proportions

Senator Demands “heads roll” in Department of Revenue

Egregious abuse of authority

Land Trust Lobbyist in Trouble for Lying

Dept. of Revenue Abuses Rural Colorado

Lobbyist’s Action Expose Corruption

Former Dept. of Revenue Employee: I Was Ordered to Delete Emails

Boondoggle Created by Legislation

$117.6 million – the number of dollars we have screwed the citizens of Colorado out of over the past 10 years,” 

Conservation Easement Amnesty Debated

It’s Never Too Late to do the Right Thing

Suit Filed Against CEOC Member

Dept. of Revenue Chief says Dept.Lacked Expertise to Validate Conservation Easement Appraisals

$1.4 million bond before they can proceed to sue the Colorado Department of Revenue.

Protest Precedes $1.4 Million Dollar Bond Hearing

Little Orphan Easement?