Carolyn Kohrs, center, stands for a portrait with her children, Clara, left, Clara's son, Quinn, and Hannah, right, on the Kohrs family land on Jan 5, 2023. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
January 6, 2023
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Conservation easements bring permanent protection for Flathead lands
Conservation easements are voluntary legal agreements between a land owner and a land trust that permanently limit development on a parcel of land in an effort to protect its conservation values.
Flathead Land Trust celebrates placement of conservation easements on two area properties
Minnesota residents, the Kohrs began visiting the Flathead Valley in 2001. Since then, they’ve bought up roughly 655 acres of farmland and wildlife habitat along the Stillwater River, beginning with the purchase of a 20-acre parcel in 2005. With the help of the Flathead Land Trust, that 655-acre tract is now under a conservation easement, one of two properties in the region the nonprofit finished shepherding through the process in December.