Timothy Lindstrom is an attorney who specializes in the federal tax law of conservation easements and land trusts. He serves as legal counsel to easement donors and land trusts throughout the United States. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on the topic, and has played an instrumental role in the creation of additional statutory incentives for voluntary land conservation. Lindstrom and his family have contributed conservation easements on farms in Virginia and Michigan.
Voluntary land conservation, resulting from increasingly alluring tax benefits, has significantly changed the face of land use in the United States and promises to have an even more significant influence in the future. There are more than 1,500 land trusts in the U.S. today, involving millions of acres of land that have been permanently protected by conservation easements. Most of these land trusts depend heavily upon the significant income or estate tax benefits offered by the federal tax code as an incentive for voluntary land conservation.