The following is a short list of helpful publications:
Adirondack Land Trust, Developing a Land Conservation Strategy: A Handbook for Land Trusts, (Elizabethtown, NY: Adirondack Land Trust, 1989).
Barrett, Thomas & Putnam Livermore, The Conservation Easement in California, (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1983).
Bobolink Enterprises, Bringing Trusts to Ontario: A Study on the Role of Nature Trusts, (Toronto, ON: Federation of Ontario Naturalists, 1988).
Bobolink Enterprises, Conservation Easements Implementation Project, (Toronto, ON: Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1987).
Diehl, Janet & Thomas Barret, The Conservation Easement Handbook: Managing Land Conservation and Historic Preservation Easement Programs, (Alexandria, VA: The Trust for Public Land & Land Trust Exchange, 1988).
findlay, barbara & Ann Hillyer, Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Legal Tools for the Voluntary Protection of Private Land in British Columbia, (Vancouver, BC: West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation, 1994, http://freenet.vancouver.bc.ca/local/wcel/wcelpub/5110/5110.html).
Hilts, Stewart & Ron Reid, Creative Conservation: A Handbook for Ontario Land Trusts, (Toronto, ON: Federation of Ontario Naturalists, 1993).
Land Trust Alliance, Appraising Easements: Guidelines for Valuation of Historic Preservation and Land Conservation Easements, (Washington, DC: Land Trust Alliance, 1990).
-----, Starting a Land Trust: A Guide to Forming a Land Conservation Organization, (Washington, DC: Land Trust Alliance, 1990).
Layard, Nora & Loralee Delbrouck, editors, Stewardship '94: Revisiting the Land Ethic, Caring for Our Land -- Proceedings of the Symposium, (Victoria, BC: BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, 1994).
Lind, Brenda, The Conservation Easement Stewardship Guide: Designing, Monitoring and Enforcing Easements, (Washington, DC: Land Trust Alliance, 1991).
Loukidelis, David, "Preserving Greenspace: Conservation Covenants & Others," in Environmental Law Update, (Vancouver, BC: Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, April, 1995)
Loukidelis, David, Using Conservation Covenants to Preserve Private Land in British Columbia, Ann Hillyer, editor, (Vancouver, BC: West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation, 1992).
Meyers, Phyllis, Lessons from the States: Strengthening Conservation Programs through Grants to Nonprofit Land Trusts, (Washington, DC: Land Trust Alliance, 1992).
Montana Land Reliance and Land Trust Exchange, Private Options: Tools and Concepts for Land Conservation, (Covelo, CA: Island Press, 1982).