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Karl Tyler inks conservation easement to protect prime salmon habitat

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Tyler has been thinking about preserving the salmon Karl Tyler with his wife Donna and Zip. Below, the sign for the Little Eight Mile Ranch features the Chevy logo, Tyler’s initials and one of their livestock brands. spawning areas in the Lemhi River for years. Snake River Chinook salmon have been listed as a threatened species since 1992. He's been approached multiple times by people and organizations that wanted to buy the ranch because of its high environmental and recreational values.

 

But Tyler wanted to make sure that any conservation efforts on his ranch were blended with the ranch operations so he could continue to raise cattle and run a working ranch.

"Carl Lufkin, my ranch manager, and I started talking about 10 years ago about what we could do to improve the ranch and keep the ranch's integrity for agriculture," Tyler says. "We talked to several groups and they were pretty closedminded to agriculture, didn't understand agriculture, they were all worried bout subdividing ... they didn't have the same goals that I did."   Read the full article here