Protecting Open Space and The Environment for Those Who Depend On It
For property owners, land is one of your most important assets and your vision for its future is essential to your organization or family and the future of the state. Keith Fountain provides legal representation to clients who own land with natural resource value, those whose livelihoods depend on the protection and productivity of these resources, and those who support nature and the environmental interests of Florida. As the best-known conservation attorney in the state of Florida, Keith provides expertise across a full range of legal services to families, business, government entities and nonprofits in land conservation and property rights.
Review, negotiation and drafting of conservation easements, including those conservation easements for which a charitable contribution may be claimed under 26 Internal Revenue Code Section 170(h)
Review, negotiation and drafting of purchase contracts, particularly the contracts used by county, state and federal agencies
Review of title commitments, surveys, environmental site assessments, and conservation easement documentation reports
Resolution of a wide range of title issues, including defects of record and mineral interests
Representation before county and state agencies, Florida Cabinet, and Acquisition and Restoration Council
In addition to sales and acquisitions, Keith has been involved with gifts of real estate and conservation easements, amending conservation easements, and permitting wetlands mitigation and conservation banks