Welcome to Conservation Law, P.C.: Conserving Working Lands and the Environment Conserving Working Landscapes and Environmentally Significant Properities in the Rocky Mountain West Welcome to Conservation Law, P.C.: Conserving Working Landscapes and Environmentally Significant Land in the Rocky Mountain West Conservation Law, P.C. is a conservation law firm devoted to protecting working landscapes and environmentally significant lands in the Rocky Mountain West and in ensuring the permenance of this land conservation This website is intended to provide information to landowners, land trusts, non-profits, and government entities working with conservation easements, tax credits, and complex land transactions to conserve open space in the Rocky Mountain West, with specific focus on Colorado.  This website is NOT intended to provide legal advice to its visitors, nor should it be relied on as providing such advice. Ms. Jay is an attorney specializing in conservation transactions. To contact her directly with questions or comments, please feel free to email her at the link provided below, or at: Conservation Law, P.C. aka Jessica E. Jay, P.C. Jessica E. Jay, Attorney at Law phone 303-674-3709 fax 303-674-3715 email conservationlaw@msn.com Ms. Jay's conservation practice is devoted to ensuring the permanence of conservation through sound land conservation transactions and the defense and enforcement of perpetual conservation easements. Ms. Jay represents and partners with land trusts, government entities, and landowners to conserve working landscapes and environmentally significant properties in the Rocky Mountain West. She actively engages conservation professionals, land trusts, and landowners in conservation workshops, and guides the next generation of land conservationists through her Conservation Law course at Vermont Law School. Ms. Jay is happy to confer with you by phone or in person for a free consultation. Please visit the links here if you are searching for a local, regional, or statewide land trust, or are seeking additional, general information on land trusts and conservation easements. Ms. Jay continues her research, development, and publication of tax incentives for conservation, third party enforcement of conservation easements, and legal defense and enforcement mechanisms for land trusts. She collaborates with the land trust community to facilitate conservation transactions, enable defense and enforcement of conservation easements, and to assist with the research, development, and implementation of tax credit incentives. Ms. Jay represents both landowners and land trusts in conservation transactions and specializes in ensuring that easement donors benefit from local, state, and federal tax incentives for conservation and that land is protected with a perpetual and defensible deed of conservation easement. Stewardship, legal defense, and enforcement of conservation easements are becoming important elements in the conservation world. Ms. Jay researches models for conservation easement defense, enforcement, and stewardship to ensure the permanence of conservation easements. Ms. Jay has published several law review articles on these subjects, which currently are available through links on this website, at Lexis and Westlaw, or if you contact her directly, she can provide you with electronic or a hard copies of the same Prior to founding her conservation law firm, Ms. Jay practiced conservation, real estate, and environmental law for several years with Isaacson, Rosenbaum, Woods & Levy, P.C.; prior to that, she spent a year clerking for the Honorable Peter H. Ney of the Colorado Court of Appeals. Ms. Jay received her Juris Doctor and her Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School, where she was the Senior Articles Editor for the Vermont Law Review, a member of the Debevoise Moot Court Board, and a teaching Dean's Fellow.  Ms. Jay now teaches Land Conservation Law at Vermont Law School.  Ms. Jay received her undergraduate bachelor of arts with high honors in a coordinate major of government and environmental studies and a minor in biology. To the side of this page, you will find links to the next two webpages with conservation easement outlines of conservation concepts and conservation easement articles. Please visit them for more information on conservation processes, transactions, and tax credits.