Recent News and Events

The Payette Land Trust announces three Conservation Easements accomplished in 2007.
Total acreage of the 2007 CE's was 2,483 acres. The PLT now has over 4000 protected acres!

1) A CE of 213 acres adjoining the Blackhawk Wildlife Preserve creates 365 protected acres along the Payette River. The new CE donated by Sima Muroff will expand the Blackhawk Wildlife Preserve to 365 acres. The wildlife preserve is the habitat for moose, elk, deer, ducks, geese, foxes, sand hill cranes, eagles, osprey, herons and otters. It includes wetlands, forested areas and a trail along the Payette River.

2) Cranberry Ridge is located South of McCall and west of West Mountain Road. Jerry Barnett placed a CE on 1286 acres with a trail that will be open to the Public.

3) Don Driscoll placed a CE on a 984 acre Ranch in Washington County near Cambridge, Idaho.

Wall Street Journal - February 7, 2007
Tax Break With A View
Landowners rush to take advantage of new land law that boosts deductions for blocking development; a crackdown on abuse.
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2007 Renewal Letter  - February 5, 2007
by Bob Vosskuhler
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Star News  - January 25, 2007...
Michael Kilgallon of Atlanta has placed his 852-acre Boars Nest Ranch, located south of Riggins overlooking the Rapid River Fish Hatchery, into a conservation easement. 
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Star News  - January 11, 2007...
The developers of the Blackhawk planned community have signed a conservation easement that permanently protects 152 acres of a 1,551-acre project five miles southwest of McCall. 
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Star News  - October 10, 2006...
The Payette Land Trust has received a conservation easement on 288 acres of land located south of McCall along the North Fork of the Payette River last week. 
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Blackhawk on the River and The Idaho Statesman
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Pension Bill 2006 - The New Conservation Law
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Jim Fronk and Bill McMurray Join PLT Board of Directors.
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