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The Centennial Valley

In Southwest Montana's Centennial Valley, around 43,000 acres of the 100,000 acres of private land

are now covered by conservation easements. The latest Conservancy easement covers

8,500 acres of the  J Bar L Ranch. (See press release)
 

  NEWS
  Blackfoot Ranch Expands, Protects 7,500 Acres:
  Three miles of Blackfoot riverfront, 14 miles of native
  trout spawning tributaries protected (press release) 

  Funding for Wildlife Habitat Protection:
  Doris Duke Charitable Foundation provides $13 million
  to support conservation in five Rocky Mountain states 
  (press release)

  Kat Imhoff is Montana's New State Director 
Kat ImhoffKat's 27-year career has focused on conserving rural lands and waterways.
She is now the state director of
The Nature Conservancy in Montana.
(More about Kat.)



  Success: Fish Passage on the Tongue River
  Threatened warm water fish using the Muggli Fish Bypass to
  access traditional spawning areas. 

 Arctic grayling Film:  Fish & Cow is film festival finalist                  
Fish & Cow portrays ranchers and conservationists who are restoring the Upper Big Hole fishery. Winner of the International Wildlife Film Festival's Montana Filmmaker Award.  View the film.

  
  Spring '08 Big SkyBig Sky Landmarks mag cover Landmarks

 Download pp 1 - 8 (.pdf, 170 kb) pp 9 - 16 (.pdf, 408 kb)
 • A Milestone for the Blackfoot
 • Brodie & the bears of Willow Creek
 • Happy River, Happy Ranch
 • Good Energy at Pine Butte
 
 

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Places & Projects
"Good Energy" at Pine Butte: Solar, wind power and more: Staff are finding many ways to reduce the ranch's energy footprint

Blackfoot Valley
The Nature Conservancy has completed its purchase of 89,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company land as part of the Blackfoot Community Project.
 

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Photo credits (top to bottom, left to right): © Jim Steinberg, © courtesy of Kat Imhoff © Fish & Wildlife Service,