Results for keyword: conservation easements
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Saying good-bye to the ranch
Four families cooperate on conservation easements in order to save a huge ranch in Colorado from development.
by Kerry Brophy Lloyd, Mar 13, 2012 -
Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice
There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.
by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Dec 29, 2011 -
Stitching habitat together across public and private lands
Migrating animals can't read "no trespassing" signs, so it’s up to human beings to try to find ways to connect wildlife corridors that crisscross public and privately owned lands.
by Cally Carswell, Dec 25, 2011 -
Land trusts thrive despite, and because of, the Great Recession
The recession has afforded a unique opportunity for land trusts to protect more of the West’s private open land through direct acquisitions and, increasingly, conservation easements.
by Jon Christensen, Jenny Rempel and Judee Burr , Dec 13, 2011 -
Save the land by saving the rancher
The best way to preserve the West's public lands is by preserving the West's ranchers.
by Amos Eno, Sep 07, 2011 -
Conservation calculus
Energy companies in Wyoming's Jonah Field are funding habitat preservation, but no one seems to know how the wildlife's doing.
by Rebecca Huntington, Sep 02, 2010 -
The Gulf spill catastrophe can be a goad to do the right thing
Congress needs to fulfill its promise to fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
by Jamie Williams, Jul 21, 2010 -
Little orphan easement?
When a land trust dissolves, its conservation easements need to be taken on by another group, but that’s not as easy as it sounds.
by Sarah Gilman, Dec 20, 2009 -
A Montana rancher stands his ground against subdivision
An 86-year-old lifelong rancher named Vernon Gliko is donating his entire 1,800-acre Montana ranch as a conservation easement.
by Ray Sikorski, Apr 14, 2008 -
Wealthy landowners and locals wade into the ditch
Jack Wright thinks Montanans are over-reacting to stream-access issues; after all, from the point of view of a fish, it’s a good thing when a rich man restores a stream, even if he locks out trespassers.
by Jack Wright, Apr 16, 2007
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