The following article published in the Wyoming Law Review provides an in depth review of the case of Hicks v. Dowd and the Wyoming Attorney General's suit of Salzburg v. Dowd which "supports the position taken by the Wyoming Attorney General – that conservation easements conveyed as charitable gifts for the purpose of protecting the conservation values of the land they encumber in perpetuity constitute restricted charitable gifts or charitable trusts and, thus, such easements cannot be terminated without court approval obtained in a cy pres or similar equitable proceeding"
The link to the document is at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542648
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