Black Canyon Land Trust

1500 East Oak Grove,

Suite 201

Montrose, CO 81401

Voice: 970/252-1481

Fax: 970/252-7209

email BCLT

"Promoting & ensuring conservation of private lands in the Uncompahgre, North Fork, and Lower Gunnison Watersheds."

Black Canyon Land Trust History

The story of Black Canyon Land Trust begins in the early 1990's with two independent groups of local citizens that each wanted to help preserve open space and protect the special way of life that defined their areas. Valley Land Conservancy worked within the Uncompahgre River watershed from offices in Ridgway and Montrose. Three Rivers Land Trust worked within the North Fork of the Gunnison River watershed.

Valley Land Conservancy and Three Rivers Land Trust both shared the concern that rapid growth and intense development pressure was crowding ranching, agriculture, riparian areas, and fragmenting important animal and plant habitats and reducing the openness of the landscape. Both groups were dedicated to preserving the rural heritage. Valley Land Conservancy and Three Rivers Land Trust merged into a single organization, the Black Canyon Land Trust in 2000.

We continue to offer a non-governmental, voluntary approach for conserving open space with unique conservation easements. Each conservation easement is negotiated to fit the desires and conservation values of each individual land owner. The resulting conservation agreements protect each land owner's private property rights and do not impede on the land owner's ability to continue to work their land and use their water as they have historically done.

Original Valley Land Conservancy Logo

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