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Ravalli County approves $97,000 for Rory R Ranch conservation easement near Victor
Summary
The Ravalli County Board of County Commissioners on June 5 approved Resolution 4709 to allocate $97,000 from open lands bond proceeds to help place a 193.2-acre Rory R Ranch near Victor under a conservation easement, preserving agricultural land, water rights and wildlife habitat.
The Ravalli County Board of County Commissioners voted June 5 to approve Resolution 4709, authorizing $97,000 in open lands bond proceeds toward the Rory R Ranch Victor Conservation Easement, a proposed conservation restriction on 193.2 acres northwest of Victor.
The easement application, submitted by Rory R Ranch LLC and sponsored by the Bitterroot Land Trust, is intended to protect working agricultural land, riparian areas and wildlife habitat while preserving scenic open space and existing water rights from Sweat House Creek and the Blake High Line Ditch.
The project covers two legal parcels totaling 193.2 acres. County staff and the Bitterroot Land Trust told the commissioners that about 109 acres have soils identified by the Natural Resources Conservation Service as agriculturally important, including about 48 acres of soils of statewide importance. Presentations described two on-site riparian stream segments, a historic Macintosh apple orchard of…
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