They have programs that try to promote innovative, incentive-based tools to encourage landowners and businesses to participate in voluntary conservation practices while simultaneously meeting their economic needs through sustainable land management.

In fact, division officials have considered extending the project to Greenwood Forest, in Ocean County, and have encouraged private landowners to replicate it.

The immunity from injury lawsuits, the court concluded, was intended to encourage private landowners to open their land to recreational uses without worrying about lawsuits.

In 1933, the effects of the Great Depression finally encouraged local landowners to donate land for the proposed park to stimulate the local economy.

For example, a project might encourage landowners in a large area to prevent polluted runoff from damaging stretches of the river where rare mussels live.

For example, the Southampton Town Board is trying to overhaul its zoning code to encourage landowners and developers to make more low-price units available.

Higher prices, in turn, could encourage uncompensated landowners elsewhere to clear forests to produce agricultural products or timber to sell at the higher prices.

In addition it has encouraged other landowners to create 460 acres of new woods.

The revolt, having achieved its design in undermining the tax, encouraged other landowners to defy Haile Selassie.

Other states are even using tax incentives to encourage wealthy rural landowners to donate land to conservationist organizations or to the state in which it's located.