Conservation group buys ranch, sells it back to Montana landowners
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Land purchased by The Nature Conservancy near Malta will be sold back to surrounding landowners over three years in a unique partnership. 
North-central Montana ranchers and an international conservation group have collaborated to acquire a neighbor’s 5,000 acres in a unique partnership.
“There was a ranch next to us we wanted to buy and didn’t have the funding to do so … without becoming a financial casualty,” said Dale Veseth, a Malta-area rancher. “So we enlisted The Nature Conservancy, and we’re going to put a conservation easement on the property we bought and our home place as well.”
Veseth said his family has been on their ranch since 1943, although family members have been “running around the community” since 1886.
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