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Huge conservation easement in the works for SPP lands

by KIANNA GARDNER
Daily Inter Lake | July 22, 2020 7:20 AM

Nearly 200,000 acres of timberlands stretching from Glacier National Park to the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness and down to the Selkirks and Idaho Panhandle have become available for permanent conservation through pending “working forest” conservation easements.

The acreage has been made available for conservation through The Trust for Public Land, which is working in partnership with Southern Pine Plantations, the Georgia-based land investment company that purchased 630,000 acres in Northwest Montana from Weyerhaeuser in early 2020...

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