Conservation Easements Podcast Episode

[Big Fin]

It's taken some time for me to get to this project, but it has been on my list for a couple years. Given many Montana elected officials have decided it's time to attack conservation easements in Montana, I made it a priority to get this one done. Thanks to Jennifer and Kendall for joining me.

Between just RMEF and MRL, immense amounts of property has been conserved by willing landowners who enter into donations or sales of their property rights. I think this podcast does a good job of explaining the basics of CEs and why they can be so effective in the right situation. And hopefully it leaves people questioning elected officials who are opposed to CEs, which is an opposition to allowing a property owner to do what they want with their property.


Episode Description....

Randy discusses conservation easements with Jennifer Doherty of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Kendall Van Dyk of Montana Land Reliance, both who have extensive careers helping private landowners conserve their landscapes with conservation easements (CE). Topics covered include CEs, CEs as one of many tools working landowners need, willing-seller/donor exercising one of their property rights, when a CE is the best tool, a CE isn't always the solution, tax issues involving CEs, myths around CEs, the role CEs play to conserve lands on vast and expensive landscape, and many other topics about keeping working lands in working hands.

You can listen or download at this link, or get wherever you get your podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...tical-landscapes/id1012713381?i=1000683459802

We also have a tab at the top of the forum page called "Hunt Talk Radio" that will take you directly to our podcast page.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Thanks to Jennifer, Kendall, and Big Fin for an extensive, informative discussion and explanation of conservation easements, with great examples of the benefits to all, interjected with an appropriate sprinkle of humerous Newberg political sarcasm.

 

[Forkyfinder]

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[SixPoint]

It's taken some time for me to get to this project, but it has been on my list for a couple years. Given many Montana elected officials have decided it's time to attack conservation easements in Montana, I made it a priority to get this one done. Thanks to Jennifer and Kendall for joining me.

Between just RMEF and MRL, immense amounts of property has been conserved by willing landowners who enter into donations or sales of their property rights. I think this podcast does a good job of explaining the basics of CEs and why they can be so effective in the right situation. And hopefully it leaves people questioning elected officials who are opposed to CEs, which is an opposition to allowing a property owner to do what they want with their property.


Episode Description....



You can listen or download at this link, or get wherever you get your podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...tical-landscapes/id1012713381?i=1000683459802

We also have a tab at the top of the forum page called "Hunt Talk Radio" that will take you directly to our podcast page.

This was fantastic. Thank you very much for taking the time to put this together and putting it out on your platforms. It is so important to get the truth out there regarding Conservation Easements. Also, Kendall's the man.

 

[NoWiser]

I look forward to listening to this. I was able to save our family farm here in MN with a Conservation Easement. It’s taken 4 years of nightmarish paperwork and countless hours of work on the land but it’s finally done. Prairie has been reestablished and wetlands have been restored. Wildlife is flourishing. A local developer was drooling over it and now he’ll never be able to get his hands on it. The benefits this land will provide for future generations is exponentially more than another housing development could ever provide. I will always be a proponent of Conservation Easements.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Recenly a new book came out, entitled The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and A War Out West. It's the story of ranchers whose land has been in the family for 150 years and whose next generations want to keep the land by continuing cattle, sheep, and ag production. In order to make ends meet they have worked on a plan for years to have wind farms augment income. The neighboring uber wealthy nonresident landowners of Crazy Mountains land have opposed the plan and sued. Montana PSC, as well as Northwestern Energy, has thrown up roadblocks. It is a debacle of frustration for Montana hard working hands-on-the-lands families, seemingly being bullied by rich and powerful entities from elsewhere who are buying up the Crazies and other Montana treasured land at an unbelievable and deplorable rate.

'Don't want to pile more on your already full plate, BF, but this situation seems begging for a CE solution. If you have any contacts in the Springdale - Big Timber area, perhaps you could give them a shout and share the podcast.