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.
With major project support from the Wildlife Land Trust, Vital Ground’s expansion of the Fowler Creek project gives grizzlies and numerous other species a wider protected area for movement across the Yaak Valley bottom.
The Vital Ground Foundation expanded its Fowler Creek grizzly bear habitat conservation project this month with the acquisition of 64 acres in the Yaak Valley of far Northwest Montana.
More than 150 acres in the Idaho Panhandle and Northwestern Montana are now protected from subdivision and development within an important habitat connection area for grizzly bears and many other wildlife species.