Julie WhiteJulie White is a Montana native, and occupies the extremely fast-paced and action-packed position of Administrative Assistant to the President of the Company, Reid Rosenthal. No simple task, working directly with Reid -- as his office located up Lemon Creek Road is a constant hub-bub of activity. Julie is a strong and bright product of Southwestern Montana and enjoys her job helping our CEO to preserve and protect the natural beauty that surrounds them.Joan Thibault and Janet ChristensenNo business office is complete without the vital function of the accounting office. Joan Thibault and Janet Christensen are our experienced and capable bookkeepers, and they have their hands full managing not only the active accounts of Country Roads LLC and Ranches of the West, but also the equally active accounts of our many ranch, partnership and limited liability company clients. Joan has a degree in business management/office administration from Eastern Montana College and is our budget, reporting and accounts administrator working part-time offsite. Janet boasts many years of bookkeeping experience and is accustomed to juggling several clients at once; she is in charge of the accounts receivable, accounts payable and monthly invoicing. Both eager and personable, these two top-notch professionals keep our ducks in a row.Reid Rosenthal:
Country Roads and Ranches of the West have now been in existence for 18 years. We have assisted hundreds of clients in the acquisition, disposition, planning, management, resource, habitat, wildlife, fisheries, and/or agricultural restoration, operation and preservation of more than 250 operating vacation and ranch or recreation properties. We have played a direct, in most cases leading, role of more than a score of granted, or pending Conservation Easements preserving forever the wildland/agriculture attributes of thousands of acres and over many streambank miles of critical riparian habitat and superlative fisheries, and are one of the acknowledged leading edge experts in that field. Conservation Easements in planning for the coming years could add tens of thousands of acres of additional wild and ranch lands (the "saved list"). We have managed, or are managing, dozens of vacation rental units, and have built or remodeled (superbly we think with some bias) more than 40 structures for ranch and recreation clients, including the furnishing and decorating of many of them down to knives, forks and the coffee brewing. We manage significant amounts of acreage for affiliates or clients in a number of Western States and Canada. We have seen our ranch and recreation management and consulting portfolio grow to include dozens of magnificent ranch properties in three countries, in two hemispheres which, amongst their other incredible topographic features and ecosystems, include many streambank miles of some of the greatest fisheries this side of Alaska. None of this would have been possible without all of you, and we thank you for doing business with us, for being more friends than clients, for your referrals of new clients which is the backbone of our clientele, and for believing in our mission, which is to create and maintain sustainable resources. And, we thank you for sharing with us our very passionately held belief that while change is inevitable due to macroeconomic factors beyond anybody’s control, affecting the US and Canadian Rocky Mountain spine, proper planning and implementation of change will result in safeguarding, and actual enhancement of, the resources of this very special and incredibly huge and magnificent, one of a kind place on the planet. Along the way, we have made mistakes, and it is highly unlikely we will ever achieve perfection. We have taken vigorous stands on highly public issues because of our passionate and deeply held beliefs. In some cases this has earned us the accolades of a forward thinking process, and in other cases, the despise of writers representing that provincial portion of the population that spells the word "change" (no matter what the change is) as "B-A-D." Perhaps we could have been a bit less aggressive or assertive in these stances. Perhaps not. We did what we thought was right at the time, and although that caused some people not to love us, we have been for the most part greatly pleased with the end result, which is resource preservation. Some have labeled us as developers, refusing to believe or understand our emphasis on careful planning of non-resource intrusive building sites on a small fraction of properties owned by our client base, choosing instead to characterize us, and our clients, as just greedy landowners wanting to make money, rather than recognizing there are instances when a preservation plan must include as a necessity paying off debt on the ranch/property and funding extensive resource and agricultural improvements. Change is not just inevitable in a geographic area and in a landscape; change is inevitable within the Companies and Firms who have accepted responsibility for management and preservation of resources, or for that matter, any firms anywhere doing anything. We are no exception. We concentrate on assisting clients with acquisitions, conservation easement strategy, sales and marketing, large scale planning, agricultural, habitat, and resource restorations and operations, land and ranch short and long term planning, business and resource planning and similar big picture items. Having said all this, my office is always open, and I will always return a phone call from any client, guest, friend, or associate, that feels like picking up the phone to ask a question, send a harangue, or issue kudos. So don’t be bashful. Best and Warmest Personal Regards, Reid L. Rosenthal, President
Ranches of the West, LLC |
Our
fearless leader. Actually, he is called many different names by many
different people! This very sophisticated cowboy with a redneck streak
is the one man whirling dervish who founded these firms. The originator
of the famous Cross Use concept, and a pioneer in modern integrated
ranch management, Reid has over two decades of extensive real estate,
construction, development, ranching and recreation coordination and
management experience. He is a licensed Real Estate Sales Associate
and Property Manager in Montana.
