Lemhi Regional Land Trust
Conserving Landscapes & Lifestyles in Central Idaho
Last week for National Agriculture Week, LRLT got to visit with Salmon’s kindergarten and fifth grade classes to talk about the importance of agriculture. The kindergarten classes learned about the different parts of the plant and then we built our own plants out of vegetables and learned that you really can eat the entire plant! …
Congratulations to Dave McFarland on being inducted into the Eastern Idaho Agriculture Hall of Fame! Dave is a long time Carmen Creek rancher, and together with his brothers, Bruce and Tom, worked with Lemhi Regional Land Trust to place a conservation easement on a portion of their property in 2009. Learn more about the McFarland …
Ranching and recreation are cornerstone industries in Lemhi and Custer Counties and conservation helps ensure those industries can continue. Private lands conservation means land continues to be available for ranching and that fish and wildlife habitat remains intact, contributing to those cornerstone industries and benefiting all of us by supporting the local economy. Don’t forget …
Lemhi Regional Land Trust’s board chairman, Merrill Beyeler, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in Agriculture for Environmental Stewardship! Take a few minutes & check out this great video about Merrill & Beyeler Ranches & their dedication to environmental stewardship below!
Our first newsletter of 2016 is here! We’ve got lots of new stuff to report on for the new year: new parcels of land, new staff, new board members and a new concept known as “impact investing”, plus news and updates from our partners at Salmon Valley Stewardship! Take a few minutes & check it …
A huge THANK YOU to the crew at Life on the Range & the Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission for featuring our newest conservation easement completed in partnership with the Tyler Family of Leadore, the Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation & Bonneville Power Administration in July as part of their video series. We truly believe …
If you’re like those of us here at LRLT you might be wondering where the first part of 2015 went, but here it is already March & that means one thing: National Agriculture Week! LRLT teams up with a diverse group of other non-profits, government agencies, industry groups & volunteers to spread the word about …
Our partners at the Idaho Coalition of Land Trusts (ICOLT) have recently begun publishing a series called Stories of the Land featuring landowners & land trusts from around the state of Idaho. As you might suspect, the twenty land trust members of ICOLT are as diverse as our state & we are all working to …
We’ve been fortunate to be getting a lot of great coverage of the conservation work being completed in the Upper Salmon over the past little while & were thrilled to see yet another great story pop up on Facebook last night courtesy of Life on the Range. Ever heard of them? It’s an educational project …
LRLT has long maintained that ranching & conservation go hand in hand & ranchers & conservation groups here in the Upper Salmon are proving that on a daily basis. But this trend isn’t just unique to our valley, it’s happening throughout the West, including with our neighbors just over the mountain in Montana’s Big Hole …
