Land Trusts

The Sheridan Community Land Trust recently bought more than a hundred acres just a few miles outside of town. The Big Goose Natural Area will open up opportunities for recreation, historical preservation, conservation and community-building.

In year one, the Park County Open Lands council greenlit 15 projects totaling more than 6,500 acres. One of those projects, a conservation easement for a ranch property, has closed, and the rest are in progress.

Two land trusts in northwest Wyoming have merged after one of them began to slip into financial instability after expanding its conservation efforts too…