page_title: Montana Land Reliance
section_title: Conservation Easements
hierarchical_section_title: Montana Land Reliance / Conservation Easements
caption_attribution_description: English: MLR Conservation Atlas
context_page_description: The Montana Land Reliance is a nonprofit land trust established to acquire and manage conservation easements in the State of Montana. Headquartered in Helena, Montana, the organization holds 897 easements on 1,137,062 acres of private property across the state. It is the largest land trust in the State of Montana, the largest state-based land trust in the United States, and is accredited by the Land Trust Alliance.
context_section_description: A conservation easement is a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust that limits the uses of the land in order to protect its conservation values. The landowner – the conservation easement donor – retains title to the property. Regardless of changes in ownership, however, the conservation easement runs with the title, thereby protecting the land in perpetuity, for example from inappropriate development.
  Total acreage under easement: 1,137,062
  Total acreage by resource
  Range/Forests: 950,018
  Elk habitat: 584,423
  Wetlands: 68,955
  Miles of stream frontage protected: 1,829
caption: MLR Easements to date
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