Conserved Properties

In 2024, Faith Ingwersen conserved her family's ranch along Soldier Creek. She describes it as "a beautiful place with an alright ranch in the middle."

In 2023, Steve and Linda Ough "stitched" a series of divided parcels "together" through a conservation easement that maintains their land's historic agricultural use and improves the ability of mule deer and antelope to move across the land to feed, breed, and rear their young.

In 2023, Kris Korfanta and Bill Bensel conserved their 132-acre homestead in the Tongue River Valley.

2M Farms Conserves Agriculture and Wildlife on Clear Creek. In 2021, Mike Mitzel conserved the 420-acre 2M Farms in eastern Sheridan County. “It had always been my dream to own and operate an agricultural operation and when the opportunity came to purchase the family [...]

SCLT takes conservation to new heights with Sheridan Heights Ranch Conservation Easement In October 2019, Sheridan Community Land Trust took conservation to new heights as the land trust secured a unique voluntary conservation agreement to ensure the special character of one of the county’s most popular places remains intact for [...]

Deer Haven Conservation Easements ensure key Tongue River Valley ag acres can go from one family farm to the next family farm More than half of all new homes built since 2000 have been in the unincorporated parts of Sheridan County. While the opportunities development brings are welcome here in [...]

The North Gateway conservation easement closed in 2016, as part of a collaborative effort with many local partners. The easement protects 31 acres of wildlife habitat along Goose Creek, while reserving space for a community recreation area in the future. The purchased easement allowed the City of Sheridan to purchase [...]

Leaving a Legacy of Land and History in the Clear Creek Valley Mark and Kim Tenneson, dairy farmers from western Washington, spent years searching for the right agricultural property in Wyoming or Nebraska. When they set foot on a 528-acre property along Clear Creek in eastern Sheridan County in 2009, [...]

McMeans Family Preserves Property on the Tongue River In 2012, Mike and Vicky McMeans purchased 160 acres west of Dayton from Dan Scott, who had already placed the northern 80-acres under conservation easement.  The McMeans immediately began conversations with Sheridan County and the Sheridan Community Land Trust (SCLT) to determine [...]

SCLT accepted its fourth and fifth conservation easements on March 9, 2012 on 1,154 acres along Soldier Ridge located 5 miles west of the City of Sheridan. The Soldier Ridge easement was SCLT’s first “bargain sale” CE while the Soldier Hills easement was donated. These two conservation easements protect scenic [...]

McCormick Headwaters In 2012, landowner Charlie Hart donated a conservation easement to SCLT on his 240-acre property east of Big Horn, WY. This beautiful property in the scenic Bighorn foothills protects the headwaters of McCormick Creek, a tributary of Little Goose Creek. The property is made up of roughly [...]

“Although our ranch is small by Wyoming standards, we have been fortunate to share it with an amazing variety of wildlife and native plants. Sometimes being rich has nothing to do with money. We’re rich because of the biodiversity and productivity of our small corner of the planet along the [...]

SCLT secured its first conservation easement in September 2007 on 9.3 acres owned by Volunteers of America adjacent to Little Goose Creek. The easement will preserve in perpetuity wildlife habitat, floodplain, and open space within Sheridan City Limits.