New bill would provide tax incentive for private landowners to protect wild forest lands - Protect the Adirondacks!

New bill would provide tax incentive for private landowners to protect wild forest lands - Protect the Adirondacks!

PROTECT supports proposed bill providing tax incentives to conserve wild forest lands on private property. A new proposed bill would provide real property tax incentives to landowners who place permanent protective easements on their forested lands. State law currently provides real property tax reductions for landowners who manage a minimum number of acres of their land for timber production for a period of at least ten years pursuant to a timb…