Stewardship Fund
“Stewardship” is the overall management and oversight of all Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust conservation easement and fee owned properties. We are legally and ethically obligated to monitor and enforce the provisions of each easement forever. This obligation requires time (people- both paid staff and trained volunteers) and money.
Stewardship includes the physical inspection (monitoring) on a yearly basis each easement property. We depend on a wonderful, well trained group of volunteers, as well as staff, for physically monitoring our easement properties. Additionally, Ausbon Sargent is committed to providing a level of easement stewardship that will maintain good landowner relationships and avoid most easement violation situations, which requires us to depend on our staff and legal advisors for defending easements, record keeping, building landowner relationships, landowner, staff and volunteer education, rectifying compliance issues, considering reserved rights (approval or disapproval) and providing reference materials to landowners.
In order to carry out these critical stewardship obligations, Asubon Sargent has two designated funds:
1. The Stewardship Fund - supports the non-legal costs for stewardship of our easements and fee owned properties, including (but not limited to) staff time, monitor training, supplies, record storage, and maintenance of our properties.
2. The Enforcement Fund - supports the legal defense of any of our easements
If you are interested in supporting either of these critical funding opportunities, please contact Executive Director Debbie Stanley by phone 603-526-6555 or by email aslpt@tds.net.