The Beartooth Model: Bridging Financial Tools with Environmental Conservation


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When Robert Keith moved back to his family's ranch in Cody, Wyoming, he made the decision to stop commuting to coastal regions for work and instead founded Beartooth Group, a conservation investment firm, to support ranchers and their communities.

"Eventually, he made the decision to cease commuting to coastal regions for work and instead founded Beartooth to pursue his passion for supporting ranchers and their communities," the company's website states.

Keith, who has a degree in economics from Yale and a business degree from Stanford, says environmental stewardship can be synonymous with financial gains.

In an Investing in Impact podcast, he explains that Beartooth works with ranchers, owners, investors, and buyers to restore and steward the lands, waters, and wildlife of the American West.

The firm works with sellers, owners, investors, and buyers to restore and steward the lands.

For example, it has partnered with the University of Montana's College of Natural Resources to develop a drought-tolerant cattle ranch, the Missoulian reports.

"We're trying to create a resilient cattle industry in the West," Keith says.

"We're not trying to take over the world."

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