Conservation Easements on the Rise

This legal device shows that profit and protection of natural resources can go hand in hand.

By: Judith Stock

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Recession puts damper on open lands preservation

By LAUREN RUSSELL Chronicle Staff Writer

CHURCHILL — More than 70 years ago, when Ellen Alberda’s father-in-law was deciding how to divvy up his land, including one parcel on the Gallatin River and another in the rolling hills south of here, Alberda said she was secretly hoping her family would get the hills.

Why the landlocked property, instead of the river tract near what is now the Cottonwood Golf Course?

The mosquitos, she said.

“I did not go want to go by that river,” she said recently, laughing at the memory. “I wanted to be in the hills, where it was dry.”

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