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Yendalg, LLC

This property is in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, in the Mississippi River Alluvial Floodplain. The Yendalg, LLC servitude area is broadly described as located in the Deciduous Forest Formation for ecological purposes. The oak/gum/cypress forest is the associated functional climax vegetation.  The property is just outside Baton Rouge, between the communities of Arlington and […]

Ed and Thais Tonore

This approximately 330-acre servitude is owned by Ed and Thais Tonore. It is in the floodplain of the Mississippi River in Madison Parish, Louisiana. This property is just northeast of the Sherman S. Shaw and Linda Silmon servitudes. It is near the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge, with the prominent mammals being the Louisiana black […]

Robert B. Todd

The Robert B. Todd servitude property totals approximately 306 acres and is 11 miles southeast of Tallulah, in Madison Parish, Louisiana. The property was enrolled in the Wetlands Reserve Program in 2005 and was restored to forested wetlands. The landowner strongly desires superior land stewardship, emphasizing outdoor recreation, wildlife management, and hunting. This protected property […]

Charlotte Smith Revocable Trust and D&M Smith, LLC

The Charlotte Smith Revocable Trust and D&M Smith, LLC (Smith Trust) is a 191-acre forested property on Crowley’s Ridge adjacent to the St. Francis National Forest in Lee County, Arkansas. The property is within Crowley’s Ridge, one of Arkansas’s six distinct ecoregions. Crowley’s Ridge, named after the early settler Benjamin Crowley, is the smallest ecoregion […]

Linda Silmon

The Linda Silmon servitude property encompasses 2 tracts of approximately 1,289 acres total. It includes Wild Horse Bayou and is located in Tensas Parish, about 12 miles northwest of Newellton, Louisiana. The entire servitude property is in the Mississippi River floodplain. The servitude property is subject to a perpetual Wetlands Reserve Program easement. It is […]

Sherman S. Shaw

The Sherman S. Shaw servitude property consists of two tracts of approximately 1,025 acres, located about 12 miles northwest of Newellton in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. A 1-mile agricultural field separates this property from the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge to the west. It adjoins the Linda Silmon conservation servitude property to the southwest.  The property […]

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