National Agriculture Week 2017
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! …
Dave McFarland Inducted into Eastern Idaho Agriculture Hall of Fame
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 …
Today’s the Day: Idaho Gives Day
#IdahoGivesDay is here! The final reason you should support LRLT on Idaho Gives Day is because we all love this landscape. Whether you were born & raised here, vacationed here or want to live here, this remote corner of Idaho is special to all of us & private lands conservation helps protect everything that makes …
Reason #9: The Next Generation
Today’s #IdahoGivesDay reason is one that’s particularly special to us here at LRLT. The majority of our staff & board of directors were raised right here in Lemhi & Custer counties & the efforts of the previous generations helped ensure we all had a community to come home to. Conservation means that the next generation …
Idaho Gives Reason #8: Perpetuity
Idaho Gives Day Reason #8: One of the unique things about conservation easements is that they are attached to the title of the land and designed to run with the title in perpetuity, or forever. Forever is a big commitment for both LRLT & the landowners. Supporting LRLT on #IdahoGivesDay helps to us to continue …
Supporting LRLT on Idaho Gives Day: Reason #6
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 #5: Idaho Gives Day
You don’t have to look hard to find wildlife on our conservation easement properties & that’s reason #5 to support LRLT on Idaho Gives Day, May 5th. Working with landowners, LRLT has protected on of the only blue heron rookeries on the Salmon River (Cole Ranch conservation easement), a section of Hayden Creek home to …
Delivering on Promises: Reason #3 to Support LRLT
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 …
Winter 2016 Newsletter
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 …