Farm groups who oppose permanent easements say forever is too long to commit to an easement. Conservationists who drew up the initial proposals say landowners want that choice. Gov. Tim Pawlenty ...

Land and water advocates this week celebrated a community-based conservation effort on the doorstep of Glacier National Park, where a local land trust partnered with a landowner to permanently protect ...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty has stressed the importance of using permanent easements in his proposed Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. I have some tough questions that nobody can seem to adequately ...

KALISPELL, Mont. - Monday night's work session left questions unanswered about what exactly should be done to buy the $2.27 permanent easement for Kidsports. One option is to use tax increment funds. ...

States are trying to meet land conservation goals and protect agricultural acreage, but securing enough money – and enough land – to do that has been difficult across the country. For the past two ...

Union Township Board of Trustees approve a revised thirty-feet wide permanent easement to Consumers Energy for the construction and maintenance of three-phase power facilities to support the ...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but conservation easements are forever. That is the advantage and the disadvantage of conservation easements, according to Bob Paulson, director of The Nature ...

Sep. 13—Mower County has posted its record-high for acres — about 407 — signed up in one year for converting marginal cropland and floodplain to permanently restored native prairie and wetlands. About ...

Vicky and Myron Mast, local farmers in Creston, recently placed their land under a conservation easement. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Carolyn Kohrs, center, stands for a portrait with her children, ...

Washington County has preserved a 130.21-acre farm in Clear Spring through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), according to a community announcement. The easement was settled on Nov.