Well, I'm curious about the negotiations themselves and without revealing anything confidential here, but how does a purchase like this actually happen? Did the landowner approach the Nature Conservancy or was it the other way around?

More the other way around, but I'm glad you asked the question because this one does have a little bit of an interesting story.

When we were looking on maps of properties because of their size and location that we were interested in seeing if we could work with a willing seller on, this one always jumped out.

I already talked about its context and it's a pretty big chunk of ground.

So I would ask staff about it and they said, well, this is part of a contested estate and so it's just not doing anything.

Well, after about 17 years of being in that contested estate, the judge finally said, we got to move this.

And so it was actually scheduled to go to public auction last September.

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