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The Goal is to Facilitate Creative Real Estate Transactions.

American Conservation Real Estate is an unusual resource to land owners and can assume the role of agency representation to prospective buyers - the goal is to facilitate creative real estate transactions.

In an early conversation, I explain that principally my goals are to find choices and alternatives for balancing family and financial goals with regard for the possible impact of those choices in the future.

Among the choices we investigate are the ranch operation and its operators; financial compensation for landowners; the potential for land planning and development; and for dealing with the impact of people living on the land.

I like to work with the possibilities of estate planning and the financial implications of conservation easements as a tool to reach long-term goals. I am trained to understand and to design creative conservation real estate transactions that can convey some "interest in property", through which we bring financial compensation to the landowners. I use a retainer as an employment agreement. I lead the team with my clients understanding that we will probably include other professional help as the transactions unfold.

Lane Coulston

Lane has 29 years of experience in real estate. In 1989, he co- founded American Conservation Real Estate, the first real estate company to specialize in private land conservation. Through American Conservation Real Estate, Lane pioneered buyer-brokerage for conservation purchases, and developed the "Small Homestead" approach to providing ranchers with direct monetary compensation for conservation easements.

Office and Mailing address: 925 Lilac Street, Missoula Montana 59802

Office and Cell phone 406.443.7085

Information about green building and energy conservation at www.LaneCoulston.com

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"What we lose with the cowboy is far more than some antiquated and romantic notion of the West. When we lose the family ranch, we lose much that we need as human beings, and much of what brought immigrants to the inland West in the first place: a daily, personal relationship with nature; a social contract that works; a sense of connection with others; a sense of fully inhabiting a place for the long haul. Ranching communities are ruled by ethics that knit neighbors tightly and securely together - the antithesis of the alienated urban culture in which seventy-five percent of Americans now live."

By Perri Knize,
July 1999 The Atlantic Monthly

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