Have you ever done any work related to conservation easements?
Not really though I guess it depends on what kind of easements. I did some work a while a back with the FWS to develop a spatial optimization tool for awarding Conservation Reserve Program type grants, which are generally temporary easements and paying farmers to not plow fields, like where to put them at a regional level to best benefit grassland birds. But, that project never actually got implemented. I did another project to help the state of Alabama to identify where to place permanent habitat conservation for a highly endangered salamander but easements were only one of the possible tools for permanent conservation. In the end the state went with purchases.