Roger Lang is trying a new approach to conservation in Montana. Bring in more millionaires.
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Roger Lang is trying a new approach to conservation. Bring in more millionaires. Cluster them up. Give them room to play, but keep their impacts low. Teach them how to act. Use their money to conserve more land.
Lang is no stranger to big money or big ideas in conservation. After making a fortune in the software industry, be bought the Sun Ranch http://www.sunranchlodge.com here 10 years ago. It’s a stunningly beautiful chunk of Montana, stretching from the banks of the Madison River to the rim of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness. He owns 19,500 acres here and leases another 7,000.
When he bought the place from action-movie star Steven Seagal, it was in rough shape, weedy and neglected. But Lang set to work, applying big ideas to a big landscape, and trying to be a model for coexistence between cattle and predators, notably wolves and grizzly bears.
By SCOTT McMILLION Chronicle Staff Writer
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Sun Ranch Lodge http://www.sunranchlodge.com
Sun Ranch LLC http://www.sunranch.com/
Sun Ranch Institute http://www.sunranchinstitute.org/
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