INCOME TAX CREDIT!
The Maryland General Assembly passed legislation in 2001 allowing a state income tax credit for donations of conservation and preservation easements to the Maryland Environmental Trust and Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (reduced by any amount of payment received for the easement). Due to the response to the tax credit, landowners who wish to donate an easement to MET by the end of the calendar year should contact MET staff by November 1st of that year. For more information, see Tax Benefits.

Since its creation by the General Assembly in 1967, MET has helped landowners protect over 100,000 acres of open land through more than 800 conservation easements. Read Landowner Stories.

For more information on land conservation programs, options and progress in Maryland, visit MET's companion website, www.conservemd.org.