conservation partnerships

Kentucky hunters were stuck with an agreement that landowners could cancel in 30 days; a 54,560-acre easement now permanently keeps a huge elk landscape open in a state where 95% of land is private

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For hunters across Kentucky, the search for land to hunt has always meant a precarious dance with property owners. They never knew if they could go to the same place the following year. All because of the 30-day opt-out agreement. These temporary agreements could be cancelled with just 30 days’ notice. For families, this was…

A Wisconsin farming family fought a 2016 tax change as nearly 2,000 floodplain acres became harder to farm; 10 years later, the land is being permanently protected

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Upper Mississippi riverRepresentative image from Canva For generations, the Hoesly family farmed rich bottomland along the Wisconsin and Kickapoo rivers in southwest Wisconsin, growing corn and soybeans on nearly 2,000 acres of floodplain. But as floods grew more frequent and severe, and a 2016 state tax change made it harder to claim agricultural exemptions on…