Rasmussen, Kate2024-10-182024-10-182021https://wyoscholar.uwyo.edu/handle/internal/9763https://doi.org/10.15786/wyoscholar/9971Bryant Jones bought the Willow Basin Ranch in southwest Montana shortly after graduating college. He soon began exploring the possibility of selling a conservation easement to help pay down the loan he took out to buy the property. Although a number of entities specialize in conservation easements, Bryant quickly settled on The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Ninety five percent of his ranch in the foothills of the Blacktail Mountains is sage grouse habitat. TNC has a primary interest in preserving sage grouse habitat and was eager to work with Bryant on an agreement to keep the Willow Basin grassland intact forever.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Whitney MacMillan Private Lands Stewardship Programranchingconservation easementlandownership