News and Reports
| Date: | 5/3/2008 |
| Title: | Easement Protects 7,500 Acres in Blackfoot Valley |
| Summary: | A 7,500-acre expanse of land in the Blackfoot Valley, holding working agricultural lands, wildlife habitat and tributaries crucial to spawning cutthroat and bull trout, has been protected for perpetuity with a conservation easement. |
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| Date: | 4/21/2008 |
| Title: | One Big, Happy Gang: Easement to Benefit 1,000 Elk |
| Summary: | By John Cramer of the Missoulian. Dean Dutton and John Ottman, who make their living from cattle and trees, respectively, didn't have to look far to see one of the reasons they recently put some of their land into conservation easements. Make that 1,000 reasons. |
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| Date: | 3/6/2008 |
| Title: | Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Receives First Theodore Roosevelt Legacy Award |
| Summary: | A new award honoring the tenacious, collaborative spirit of America's greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, was presented this week by the conservation and hunting organization that Roosevelt himself founded 121 years ago.
The Boone and Crockett Club has presented its first Theodore Roosevelt Legacy Award to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. |
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| Date: | 2/11/2008 |
| Title: | Conservation Easements Critical to Rational Growth |
| Summary: | The Jan. 24 edition of the Flathead Beacon carried a column by Dave Skinner that seemed to suggest conservation easements were not "good news" for the Flathead Valley.
The truth is conservation easements are very "good news" for the Flathead and its current and future residents and businesses. Conservation easements are good news for the Flathead quality of life and good news for the Flathead economy. |
| Download the complete article: Adobe Acrobat PDF (132KB) | |
| Date: | 2/5/2008 |
| Title: | Comments to the Montana Interim Fire Suppression Committee |
| Summary: | The members of the Montana Association of Land Trusts very much welcome this opportunity to present comments primarily on the topics of private land forest health and private land conservation. These comments will also highlight the vast and - in large part - unrecognized work Montana's land trusts and landowners are doing in concert to actively manage working lands and forests to reduce fuels and the threat of catastrophic fire. |
| Download the complete letter: Adobe Acrobat PDF (252KB) | |
| Date: | 12/17/2007 |
| Title: | Stewardship Mapping and Conservation Planning |
| Summary: | If you're interested in landscape conservation in Montana, and you're still having a hard time getting excited about stewardship mapping, it's time for you to try a little harder.
For a decade now, through some amazing advances in technology, the Montana Natural Heritage Program (NHP) and its partners provide some of the most valuable and helpful land conservation mapping in the nation. |
| Download the complete article: Adobe Acrobat PDF (168KB) | |
| Date: | 10/11/2007 |
| Title: | Key Discussion Coming Up on Important Wildlife Plan |
| Summary: | The Montana Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Conservation Strategy is a long title for what's probably the most important wildlife management plan you've never heard of. |
| Download the complete article: Adobe Acrobat PDF (132KB) | |
| Date: | 6/21/2007 |
| Title: | The Buyer's Guide to Montana Water Rights |
| Summary: | The Buyer's Guide to Montana Water Rights is designed to help new and prospective landowners understand water rights in Montana. Topics include:
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| Download the buyer's guide: Adobe Acrobat PDF (2.6MB) | |
| Date: | 6/21/2007 |
| Title: | Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Conservancy Newest Member of Montana Association of Land Trusts |
| Summary: | The Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Conservancy, a land trust working in the Clark Fork River Valley in Montana's Sanders County and in Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille watershed, is the newest member of the Montana Association of Land Trusts. |
| Download the complete article: Adobe Acrobat PDF (116KB) | |
| Date: | 2/5/2007 |
| Title: | Conservation Easements Provide Wide Range of Benefits in Montana |
| Summary: | Conservation easements and the work of land trusts have cropped up in recent guest columns, so it might be timely to provide some new information about the vast contributions land trusts have made to conservation of private lands in Montana. |
| Download the complete article: Adobe Acrobat PDF (144KB) | |
| Date: | 1/15/2007 |
| Title: | Montana Association of Land Trusts Acts to Implement Report Findings |
| Summary: | The Montana Association of Land Trusts today announced its support for many of the findings contained in a Legislative Audit Committee report about conservation easements and announced its support of legislation aimed to implement major portions of the report's key recommendations. |
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| Date: | 1/8/2007 |
| Title: | SB 131 (Cobb) Land Banking Extension |
| Summary: | Testimony of Glenn Marx, Executive Director, Montana Association of Land Trusts to the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee January 8, 2007 - SB 131 (Cobb) Land Banking Extension. |
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