Alabama Forest Resources Center

Alabama Forest Resources Center has earned a reputation as the leading working forest land trust in Alabama, helping private landowners protect over 74,000 acres of forest and farm land through conservation easements. One of the most important tasks of the Alabama Forest Land Trust (AFLT) is securing conservation easements. Easements hold great promise as one of the most effective techniques for the preservation of privately owned forestland in Alabama. Each easement is tailored to the particular property and to the interests of the individual owner. Easements keep private lands in private ownership. They allow land use traditions such as hunting, forestry and agriculture to continue. Most importantly, easements are a positive incentive for the landowner to ensure that future use of the property will be consistent with the owners’ desires to protect certain characteristics of the land. Concern over the loss of Alabama’s forest and farmlands and their associated invaluable habitats, prompted the AFLT (as the Alabama Forest Resources Center) to form a land trust for working forests and farms at its annual meeting on September 12, 1999.