Easement rounds off 12,000-acre project on Flathead River

The Flathead Land Trust’s “Flathead River Conservation” project was recently completed after a 155-acre parcel was added to a network of conserved land totaling nearing 12,000 acres along the Flathead River.

According to the Flathead Land Trust, the new easement “protects key wetlands and riparian habitat and rich farm soils along a third of a mile of the Flathead River adjacent to 725 acres of conserved private land...