FRENCHTOWN, Mont. — A Frenchtown rancher has agreed to conserve 1,000 acres that are home to 80 bird species.
The addition to a 2009 conservation easement was announced this week by Five Valleys Land Trust.
Trust executive director Grant Kier says the Boyer family has farmed and ranched the property for more than a century. Kier says Joe Boyer wanted to make sure that legacy continued after watching other land in the area turn into subdivisions and gravel pits.
The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/SN2q3c ) the trust has been talking with Boyer since 1999.
The addition brings two more parcels into a 2009 conservation easement.
The project was supported by $412,000 in public and private funding sources.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/28d04daaca6a4cbd8b54e7a454fcedc4/MT--Conservation-Easement
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