The Camp Creek Land and Cattle Company is the latest addition to an 8,500-acre block of conserved land in the Amsterdam/Churchill area, a region of strategic conservation focus for GVLT.

The Trout Creek farm is located in GVLT’s East Gallatin River strategic focus area and is nestled in between two existing conservation easements, adding to a large block of contiguous land that will never be developed.

Nearly a decade ago, GVLT and Haven collaborated on a project that came to fruition earlier this month, one which promises to make our community better.

Arthur Blank established a conservation easement on his 8,800-acre Paradise Valley Ranch in partnership with the Gallatin Valley Land Trust.

Simply put, a conservation easement is a tool that helps Montana farm and ranch lands stay farm and ranch lands.

“The point of the program was to work with willing landowners to keep agricultural lands in agriculture, while also protecting water quality, open space, and wildlife habitat,” said Barb Cestero, who worked on the 2000 bond campaign.

Our community can feel extra jolly this holiday season because four conservation projects received approval for funding through the Gallatin County Open Lands Program.

Gallatin County’s Open Lands Program, and the property tax levy that helps fund it, will help achieve the goal of keeping as much of the area as possible free from development.

Flight monitoring is changing the conservation easement monitoring game. Learn when and how GVLT’s Stewardship team uses flight monitoring.

The 13^th and most recently completed conservation easement in the Gooch Hill area closed in May 2022, thanks to Ron and Janice Bos of Bos Hay & Grain.

At a recent GVLT Board meeting, Matt and Sarah Skoglund of North Bridger Bison expressed their thanks for helping them to complete a conservation easement on their ranch in Sedan.

GVLT staff worked closely with the Newhall family and the Forest Service to complete a trail easement, ensuring that the entirety of the Bridger Ridge Trail will remain accessible to the public in perpetuity.

Every spring, our Stewardship team is preparing for a busy season of visiting with every landowner who has worked with GVLT to conserve land throughout our region.

GVLT is thrilled to announce the purchase of a trail easement on a section of the Bridger Ridge Trail (BRT) on the south end of the Bridgers.

Thanks to the generosity of Harald and Peggy Ring in Big Sky, we have officially completed our 120^th GVLT conservation easement.

In partnership with the Flikkema family, GVLT established its 118th conservation easement, protecting 426 acres of farmland and open space in the Amsterdam-Churchill region of Gallatin County.

A 160-acre piece of land in the West Bridger Mountains that was once private is now public thanks to a local family, a land trust and various donors.

GVLT reached its 50,000 acres-conserved milestone with the successful completion of a conservation easement in the Amsterdam-Churchill area of Gallatin County on the Madison-Gallatin Plateau.

GVLT successfully applied to renew Gallatin Regional Partnership Program (Gallatin RCPP) funding through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to the tune of $3.8 million.