LIVINGSTON — When Robert Anderson looks out across the ranch his great uncle purchased in the Trail Creek drainage about 100 years ago, he sees an intact piece of agricultural land that has survived generations of familial and economic pressures.

If the ranch has resisted residential encroachment for this long, “it needs to continue forever,” he said of the decision he and his wife, Valerie, made this May to put their 884-acre property into a conservation easement that will preserve it as open, working land.

The money for the easement was made possible by the Northern Yellowstone Open Lands initiative, a project launched by Gallatin Valley Land Trust in 2022 to conserve agricultural land and wildlife migration corridors at the landscape scale. Robert was the first landowner in Park Count

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