Idaho Cattle Ranches For Sale
Eighteen Mile Creek Ranch is an Idaho cattle ranch located near Leadore, Idaho. Bordering the beautiful Upper Lemhi River Valley and surrounded by the Salmon National Forest, the ranch totals 8,130± acres (770± acres deeded irrigated ground, 7360± acres BLM lease and a 293 AUM Forest Service allotment. All these lands are contiguous for easy of cattle grazing management. There is 1.5± miles of Eighteen Mile Creek and a private spring creek, both which have strong water rights to serve the three pivots and numerous wheel line and flood irrigated fields. The Idaho ranch produces 1500± tons of hay on the average which is more than enough to support the 290± cow calf pairs through the winter with plenty of hay left to sell. Even though Eighteen Mile Creek Ranch is an easy to run cow calf operation, it would also be a very good setting for yearlings, easily running 550-600 animals.
The streams on the Idaho ranch for sale are also key headwaters for the Lemhi River, a stream full of trout, steelhead and salmon which makes this an excellent fly fishing ranch. With that, The Nature Conservancy has actively been pursuing a Conservation Easement with the current owners. Even though no conservation easement exists on the property yet, TNC last year approved a $1.35M cash purchase of an easement. The conservation easement would have minimal impact on the existing cattle operation, mainly limiting subdivision. The current owners have already fenced off the creek from grazing which has greatly enhanced the riparian area. The increased number of birds, deer and trout are evidence of this positive impact.
Eighteen Mile Creek Ranch in Idaho is almost completely surrounded by public lands. With that, large herds of elk, deer and antelope utilize the ranch during hunting season but not during the other times of the year. There is excellent fly fishing in the Lemhi and Salmon Rivers locally with Clark Canyon Reservoir and the famous Beaverhead River just over the hill in Montana.
This Idaho cattle ranch for sale is located less than an hour to Dillon, Montana, 45± minutes to Salmon, ID and 1 ½± hours to commercial air service in Idaho Falls, ID. The small town of Leadore, ID is just 10± minutes away providing basic local services.
