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🌿Meet Niah Pennington, Stewardship Coordinator at Teton Regional Land Trust.
Niah grew up in Helena, Montana, where time spent exploring lakes, forests, and wildlife with her family sparked an early interest in conservation. She earned a B.S. in Wildlife Biology with a minor in Climate Change Studies from the University of Montana in 2014. After working as a seasonal wildlife technician on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest, she moved to Jackson in 2018 to work for the Bridger-Teton National Forest. She later earned her M.S. in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology from Colorado State University, completing her degree in 2024.
Niah joined TRLT in May 2024 and now works with landowners and the stewardship team to care for conservation easements and support the long-term protection of wildlife and natural landscapes. She has a particular soft spot for the small, often overlooked animals that are easy to miss, especially frogs, toads, snakes, and bats.
Outside of work, Niah enjoys spending time around all kinds of animals, both wild and domestic. It’s always a joy to spend the day with Niah out in the field, where she has an incredible knack for noticing the often overlooked animals and plants that the rest of us might miss.
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A local family and Teton Regional Land Trust (TRLT) has permanently conserved 1,686 acres through the Flying A Bitch Creek Conservation Easement. This part of the farm has been in the family for more than 50 years and remains an active working landscape, where the family continues a long tradition of agriculture in Fremont County.
The family homesteaded in Fremont County in 1901, and four generations later, the family continues to work the land through ranching, dry and irrigated farming, and a seed potato business.
This is the fourth conservation easement Flying A Ranch has completed with TRLT. The project continues the legacy of Clen Atchley, an early board member of TRLT who was involved in the early efforts of the Fremont Heritage Trust, a local land trust that later merged with TRLT. Clen was a strong advocate for protecting eastern Idaho’s farmland to ensure that agriculture would remain part of the region’s future.
Clen passed away in 2024 while this project was still underway, but the completion of this project carries forward his commitment to keep this land in agriculture and protect critical wildlife for future generations.
“Our family first and foremost wants to thank everyone at the Teton Regional Land Trust,” said Laura Pickard. “This has been a multiyear project that has come to fruition through countless hours and significant effort. Their commitment to these projects exemplifies everything that makes this organization so important. We are so grateful to have been able to work with them to protect this very special part of our farm for many generations to come.”
Click here to read the full story: tetonlandtrust.org/flying-a-conservation-easement/
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