The Glacier Institute, a longtime leader in outdoor education, has purchased 141 acres bordering the Bad Rock Wildlife Management Area — a move that both protects critical wildlife habitat and marks a new chapter in the nonprofit’s mission to connect…
Since 2001, R2L partners have proteccted nearly 9,000 acres oof critical lands in the R2L focus area, adding to a network of over 14,200 acres of privately and publicly protected lands along the Flathead River...
Thanks to Luci Yeats and her late husband, Dave, the 76-acre Heart Rock Ridge family farm near Columbia Falls was permanently safeguarded through a donated conservation easement with Flathead Land Trust last April. Luci's property, located near the Bad Rock…
February 29, 2024 Nearly fifty years ago, a man named Owen Sowerwine dreamed of safeguarding a 405-acre community treasure with exceptional, intact forested river bottom habitat near Kalispell. This week, that vision blossomed into reality. After years of collaboration between…
The Montana Land Reliance just closed on two new conservation easements along the Flathead River, helping landowners protect an additional 320 acres in the Creston area and 310 acres in the North Fork. These and other projects bring our growing…
This January, the Flathead Land Trust worked with Charles and Renate Jaquette to place a conservation easement on their 497-acre farm. The farm borders Egan Slough, an old oxbow wetland connected to the Flathead River, north of Flathead Lake. The…
The Montana Land Reliance worked with Myron and Vicky Mast to conserve 731 acres in the Creston area near the Flathead River, east of Kalispell. The Mast property includes productive cropland, sub-irrigated riparian pasture and forestland, and a portion of…
The Flathead River in Paint event and auction raised over $18,000 from the sale of 21 paintings completed by 13 artists in “plein air” on conserved lands along the Flathead River and north shore of Flathead Lake. Half of these…
On December 21, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) finalized the purchase of 772 acres of intact forestland along the Flathead River near Columbia Falls from former landowner Columbia Falls Aluminum Company (CFAC), a subsidiary of Glencore, Inc. FWP will…
Terese Lipinski Kashi grew up on Ashley Creek, and remembers fishing for native trout and observing a diversity of wildlife on her property. She has watched the pace of development increase in the Flathead Valley, and pressures on the land…