Details for Purchase of Development Rights: Conserving Lands, Preserving Western Livelihoods (Updated June 2002)

A unique partnership of cattlemen, conservationists, and Western governors developed this report supporting the creation and use of publicly funded Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) to protect rapidly disappearing farm and ranch land and to conserve agricultural lands and wildlife habitat in the West. Authored jointly by the Western Governors’ Association, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the Trust for Public Land.