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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]