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 …
Reason #4 to support LRLT on Idaho Gives Day: We love to quote the statistic in our office that we’re outnumbered in our little corner of Idaho 7:1 by cows and truth be told, we quite like it that way! Our only traffic jams are caused by cows or tractors, kids really can attend one …
Why should you support LRLT on Idaho Gives Day? Reason #3 is because we’ve worked hard to deliver on our promise of local private lands conservation over the past eleven years. We’ve completed conservation easements, accepted two donated parcels of land, restored habitat and become nationally accredited and 2016 promises more of the same! Not …
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!
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 …
Thanks to Toni Ruth from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers & Mark Davidson from Trout Unlimited’s Idaho Water Project for writing a guest opinion on our Tyler Ranch conservation easement!
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 …
