Landowners who devote a lifetime to caring for their wildlife habitat or improving their soils and farmland may wonder how to ensure their efforts can extend beyond their lifetime. Join Abbie Church, Mississippi Valley Conservancy Conservation Directory, to learn about permanent land protection through conservation easements with local land trust Mississippi Valley Conservancy. She will cover the fact and fiction around easement requirements; touch on local land-use trends; describe conservation easement benefits to wildlife, water quality, and soil conservation; discuss what the easement enrollment process entails; and more. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear from local landowner, Tom Lukens, about his personal experience working with the Conservancy to protect his land along the West Fork of the Kickapoo River.