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KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hosting an upcoming public meeting with private landowners and city officials to discuss conservation easements in the Whitefish area.
The meeting is scheduled for Oct. 23 from 4-6 p.m. at the F. H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company conference room in Columbia Falls. Interested members of the public are invited to attend.
The meeting will focus on lands under the Haskill and Trumbull conservation easements and not proposed easements, such as the Montana Great Outdoors project.
A conservation easement is a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust or government agency that permanently limits uses of the land to protect its conservation values. FWP holds conservation easements to protect vital fish and wildlife habitat, retain working lands, and maintain recreational access opportunities for the public. Lands under easement remain in private ownership and management, and landowners continue to pay property taxes.
The upcoming meeting is required annually by the conservation easement agreements and provide a forum for discussion of any issues related to public use, land use, access issues, conditions, or other unanticipated issues.
- Oct. 23 - F. H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company, 600 Halfmoon Road, Columbia Falls - Haskill Basin (3,020 acres) and Trumbull (7,068 acres) conservation easements near Whitefish, 4-6 p.m.
Learn more about FWP's conservation easements at https://fwp.mt.gov/conservation/landowner-programs/habitat-montana.
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