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2011 Fall/Winter NewsletterPotomac Valley On a typical autumn morning along Camas Creek, near Potomac, thick fog rolls across sleeping farms and between old barns and hay sheds. But today is not a typical day. Today Doug and Jeanne Hall, and The Nature Conservancy, are working with Five Valleys Land Trust to protect forever more than seven hundred acres of the Camas Creek Valley. |
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2011 Summer NewsletterWhy I Want Our Ranch Land to be put in a Conservation Easement "The value of this land as a place that supports native plants and animals is worth more to me than any amount of money. My deep connection — to the plants here, to the animals here, to the earth here — has enriched my life. And I want people in the future to have an opportunity to make that same connection." Sandy Boehmler |
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2010 Fall NewsletterSpanning Divides The Big Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers twist westward between mountain ranges radiating from the spine of the continent. They wind through rich valleys amid vast public lands and family farms and ranches, often separated by no more than a strand of wire, and sometimes not even by that. Here, a responsible land ethic on both sides of the fence provides priceless benefits for all of us who live here—clean, cold water, habitat for diverse and abundant wildlife, and food on our tables. |
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2010 Summer NewsletterThe North Hills Missoulians have long cherished the beauty of the afternoon sun illuminating the rolling grasslands of the North Hills. Homesteaders established truck gardens here that nourished the growing town of Missoula in its early years. During cold winter months, elk still browse bunchgrass in these hills. The conservation this summer of over 300 acres in the North Hills fulfilled a perennial community goal and marked an historic first for one of the leading waste disposal companies in the country. |
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2009 Fall Newsletter "By the end of this year, those humble beginnings will have grown to a 50,000 acre mosaic of land across eight counties in western Montana protected through conservation easements or public acquisition."
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2009 Summer NewsletterUpper Blackfoot "Holy smokes, what a place!” That’s how Becky Garland Thumma describes the Sawbuck Ranch that she and her friends John Kowalski and Paul Roos conserved this spring with the help of Five Valleys Land Trust. Next door, Carolyn and Paul Roos protected their adjacent property on the same April day. Together these two conservation easements protect nearly two and a half miles of streams and more than 160 acres of wetlands in the upper Blackfoot. |
