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COMMON GROUND VOL. 10 NO. 4 MAY /JUKE 1999 gplF� �a! �. � , �,, �Y. , ® 4?r • - ® � . >Fra�e c•7t' +',G" y-j�..C, ��cy: �_', i. "p°T,` -.Y._ •- i%:s - Big Achievements in Big Sky Country ® The Montana Land Reliance holds 324 state 's land trusts, its Fish, Wildlife and conservation easements over 319,899 acres , Parks Department and federal agencies, more than any local land trust in the nation . Ringling said . Montana ' s success in protect- ing land against an onslaught of ranchette Rock Ringling, one of three managing development stands in contrast to many directors at the Montana Land Reliance other Rocky Mountain states facing similar (406 / 443 -7027) , said the groups success with development pressure , conservation easements is based on a simple Founded in 1978, the reliance employs formula : "We 're a business . We have one 13 staff in offices in Helena, Big Fork and product. That product is private land Billings and has an operating budget of " We 're a business . conservation . We aggressively market it. $594,000 . Three people monitor the ease- We have one That' s all we do . " ments over 319 , 899 acres, including 131 ,764 product . That The formula has worked . The reliance acres in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem signed 56 easements last year alone . All 324 and 3,484 acres in the Northern Continental product is private the group holds have been donated . The Divide ecosystem . More than 116, 118 acres of land conservation , reliance 's goal : to have 600,000 acres under elk habitat, 5 ,000 acres of wetlands and 619 —Rock Ringling easement by 2003 . There ' s no scarcity of miles of stream frontage are protected . prospects . Two-thirds of Montana ' s 90 mil- The reliance has sharpened its competi- lion acres are privately owned . About 23, 000 tive edge thanks to the Harvard Business ranchers and farm owners, whose median School, which selected the nonprofit as a case age is 60, hold most of the land, said Jack study in the early 1990s . "They ask questions Wright, whose book, "Montana Ghost about why we do things the way we do, " Dance : Essays on Land and Life, " describes said Ringling. "We have to defend ourselves the state " s land conservation efforts . Wright and our business model . " Instead of one predicts that one-third of the land may go executive director, three managing directors through estate proceedings within 20 years . run the organization . The reliance prides Statewide, perhaps three-quarters of a itself on its organization, akin to a law firm million acres are held under easement by the and much less stressful, Ringling said . The Conservation Fund would like to thank the following recent contributors to the COMMON GROUND Research Fund: David Ackerman Day Breitag Charles Deknatel Kiku & Johnnie Hanes Tom Kovalicky Mr & Mrs. George O'Neill Harriet Allen Thomas Brendler Ogden Doremus Beverly Hannon Loren Kreck Robert Olshansky Mr. & Mrs. Roger Anderson Bill & Peg Briney Frederick Dorrell Clifford Harrison Jr George Lamb W. Kent Olson Byron Anderson Don & Tina Bronkema Leo Dre Anonymous x 3 David Brower Phoebe Y Marjorie Hart Susan Lammert George Overton Joy Archer La Bruce Driscoll Christopher Harte Bob Langsenkamp Mr & Mrs . Hugh Pallister Jr. Larry & Louis Bruce Steve D Doty Dumke George & Helen Hartzog Jr. Phil & Pat Leavenworth Marjorie Palmer David Armstrong James Pat Bacon urrant Anne & John Heissenbuttel Hugh Lewis Daryl Parker �' Peter Brussard William Elder Rusty & Nancy Heymann Frederick Lippitt Eva Patten Thomas Bailey Meade Cadot William Elliott J Henry Baker Jr. Andrew & Lindsey Cadot Marl Kenneth Hill Mrs. James Lipscomb Gary Patton William Baker Y & Gene Elsbree William & Julia Hobart Peter Looram Jeff Payne Leslie Barclay Madi Calcagni Helen Engle Alix Hopkins Orie & Elinor Loucks Russell Peterson John Oarlock Esther Ernst Kathy Bruce Hornsby Richard Ludington Dudley Porter Henry Barkhausen Christine Carlson & Mr, Y Y g Y M.L. 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