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Depending on the amount of protection wanted or needed, there is a wide range of land conservation techniques.
Numerous techniques can be used to conserve land, ranging from absolute protection to very limited protection. One of these techniques involves the donation or sale of land to a land trust or using conservation easements. Conservation easements can limit or prohibit development long after land ownership changes. The third technique is to regulate land alteration. A law which restricts development on an area designated as a wetland is a good example of land alteration regulation. Another technique deals with hazard regulations which dictate where potential water pollution hazards can be placed in relation to waterbodies. The fifth technique, open space development, is the use of designs which incorporate open areas into a development site. These areas can be used for either passive or active recreational activity or preserved as naturally vegetated land. Since it is neither practical nor feasible to regulate everyone and everything, landowner and public sector stewardship are both important techniques to the conservation of land.