Montana Association of Land Trusts
Private Land Conservation
2008 News and Reports Archive
| Date: | 12/19/2008 |
| Title: | First Phase of ‘Legacy’ Project Complete |
| Summary: | Nearly 130,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Co. land changed hands Thursday, the first in what eventually will be the largest conservation land purchase in United States history. |
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| Date: | 12/19/2008 |
| Title: | Room to Run - County Works Out Conservation Easement for 177 Acres |
| Summary: | Bob Hayes recently struck a deal with Five Valleys Land Trust and Missoula County that will preserve his 177 acres at Evaro through a conservation easement. |
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| Date: | 11/17/2008 |
| Title: | Striking a Balance Between Land Development and Protection in Montana |
| Summary: | This paper provides Montanans with information they can use to help strike a balance between land development and protection of the land they love. |
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| Date: | 9/24/2008 |
| Title: | Timber Industry Honors Elk Foundation Habitat Efforts |
| Summary: | The Montana Woods Products Association honors Al Christopherson and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation with its President’s Award at the organization’s annual convention. |
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| Date: | 9/23/2008 |
| Title: | Gallatin Valley Land Trust Trust Earns Accreditation |
| Summary: | The Gallatin Valley Land Trust has received accredited status from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance. |
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| Date: | 9/23/2008 |
| Title: | Five Valleys Land Trust Among Nation’s First to Receive Accreditation Status |
| Summary: | On Friday, September 19th, Five Valleys Land Trust was among the nation’s first land trusts to receive national accreditation at the Land Trust Alliance Rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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| Date: | 9/20/2008 |
| Title: | 39 Land Trusts Awarded Accreditation |
| Summary: | Land Trust Accreditation Commission announces accreditation of 39 land trusts. |
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| Date: | 9/3/2008 |
| Title: | Easements Allow Landowners to Retain Ownership |
| Summary: | Recently, county commissioners in Flathead and Lewis and Clark counties followed the examples of several of their fellow western Montana counties and placed open-lands bond measures on their November ballots. |
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| Date: | 7/30/2008 |
| Title: | Comment on the draft report relative to the Environmental Quality Council study on House Joint Resolution 57. |
| Summary: | Letter to Senator Wanzenried commenting on the draft report relative to the Environmental Quality Council study on House Joint Resolution 57, conservation easements on state lands. |
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| Date: | 7/11/2008 |
| Title: | People Will Benefit From Plum Creek Deal, Too |
| Summary: | The historic Montana timberland purchase announced last week is most certainly a great deal for Montana’s land, water and wildlife, but what about the people? |
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| Date: | 6/18/2008 |
| Title: | Conservancy Groups, Plum Creek on Brink of Historic Deal |
| Summary: | Montana has a unique, once-in-a-lifetime chance to conserve large swaths of its important forest lands. This opportunity was made possible through the great work of Sen. Max Baucus, who helped secure lead funding for a land project that could convey around 300,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company timberland into conservation ownership. This is an opportunity for all of us who care about wildlife, our quality of life and preserving our economic timber base. |
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| 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. |
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| 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) | |
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