Protected Landscapes
Discover Properties with Enduring Conservation Value
Protecting important landscapes while preserving their long-term value is an increasingly important objective for landowners, conservation organizations, and mission-driven investors. AFM Real Estate represents conservation properties ranging from lands already protected by permanent conservation easements to exceptional tracts possessing the natural, ecological, scenic, or cultural attributes that make them strong candidates for future conservation.
These properties may include productive working forests, wildlife habitat, wetlands, rivers and streams, mountain landscapes, longleaf pine ecosystems, critical watersheds, or other environmentally significant resources. Many continue to support sustainable forestry, recreation, agriculture, and other compatible uses while ensuring these special landscapes remain protected for future generations.
With decades of experience working alongside land trusts, state and federal agencies, conservation buyers, and private landowners, AFM Real Estate understands the unique considerations involved in marketing and acquiring conservation-oriented properties. Whether your goal is habitat protection, watershed preservation, carbon storage, public access, or balancing conservation with long-term investment returns, our team can help identify opportunities that align with your objectives.
Browse our available conservation properties below to discover landscapes that offer lasting ecological value alongside responsible land stewardship.
Already Protected or Easement-Ready
AFM lists conservation properties across a spectrum, from lands already secured under permanent conservation easements to exceptional tracts with the natural, scenic, or cultural qualities that make them strong candidates for future protection. Buyers can pursue an existing easement or work toward establishing one.
Diverse Ecological Land Types
Available properties span productive working forests, wetlands, rivers and streams, longleaf pine ecosystems, critical watersheds, and mountain landscapes. Many also qualify for mitigation, streamside restoration, or wetlands programs, broadening their conservation potential.
Compatible Uses Alongside Conservation
Many of these tracts continue to support sustainable forestry, agriculture, hunting, and recreation while remaining protected. Conservation ownership does not necessarily mean setting land aside entirely -- it means managing it responsibly for the long term.
Experience With Conservation Transactions
AFM Real Estate has worked alongside land trusts, state and federal agencies, and private landowners for decades, providing expertise in the unique legal, financial, and ecological considerations that conservation-oriented acquisitions involve.
Littlejohn
Union County, South Carolina
$1,269,000
± 241 Acres
Active
Listing Agent: Philip Weatherford
Beaverdam Branch
Greenwood County, South Carolina
$1,581,862
± 366 Acres
Active
Listing Agent: Philip Weatherford
Black River Timber
Clarendon County, South Carolina
$1,340,000
± 1345 Acres
Active
Listing Agent: Roy Belser
1009 Waldensia Split #3
Cumberland County, Tennessee
$436,000
± 109 Acres
Active
Listing Agent: Neil Owens
Worth Mountain
York County, South Carolina
$1,250,975
± 206 Acres
Contract Pending
Listing Agent: Philip Weatherford
MacGregor Lake Private Paradise
Marquette County, Michigan
$320,000
± 160 Acres
Sold
Listing Agent: Lucas Vold





