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On Land Magazine, Vol. 9: 'Stewardship Beyond Boundaries' - Available Now

In this edition of On Land Magazine, we delve into the heart of rural resilience, showcasing the innovative ways in which private lands and landowners tackle the challenges faced by their communities. From healthcare to mental health, and economic opportunity, these stories highlight the remarkable contributions of western landowners as they pioneer solutions to pressing issues across the rural West.

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Watch Now: Can landowners reverse desertification in the West?

Watch the recording of the last webinar of our summer series, where we explored the concept of regreening from the perspective of landowners from across the West, and the scientists studying their work and others like it. We dove into methodologies used for regreening on private lands, their scientific and practical implications, and their significance for the water cycle and landscape-scale impacts.

Take this this opportunity to hear what landowners and scientists who are exploring this work had to say during the live event on August 30th.

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USDA Secretarial Memo is a Win-Win for Wildlife and Working Lands

The memorandum directs agencies within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to consider habitat connectivity in planning and programs in a manner that recognizes State and Tribal authorities and respects private property rights.

In addition to increased coordination, the memorandum also emphasized the need to improve USDA program delivery, increase compatibility between programs, remove barriers to Tribal participation, coordinate and co-produce science, and incorporate traditional ecological knowledge.

What we're all about

A Better Place

In this short film we celebrate Western landowners' visionary stewardship. Watch, share and be inspired to support our mission of sustaining working lands, connected landscapes and native species!

Priorities

The Habitat Lease

Critical habitat for wildlife in the West is disappearing at an alarming rate. We're working on a big solution.

A simple, proven model, applied at scale

Habitat leases are designed to secure existing habitat and ecological services currently provided on private lands that meet threshold requirements for ecological site condition. 

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Water & Drought

Leading the proactive response from landowners, on the land and through policy, to the Western water crisis.

Water in the West

The West's water crisis is a challenge landowners are rising to, with the right support.

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The Working Wild Challenge

Thriving ranches and thriving wildlife.

Landowner leadership to reduce conflicts between wildlife and livestock

Our approach leads to stronger partnerships, more resilient ranches, and ultimately, better-connected landscapes.

Learn More

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On Land

The Voice of Stewardship in the American West
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WLA's magazine

On Land tells the stories of stewardship in a new West, in the voices of the people who are living it, at the leading edge of a future that puts people and nature together again for the benefit of both.

Read Now

Listen to our new Podcast!

The Habitat Lease

Critical habitat for wildlife in the West is disappearing at an alarming rate. We're working on a big solution.

A simple, proven model, applied at scale

Habitat leases are designed to secure existing habitat and ecological services currently provided on private lands that meet threshold requirements for ecological site condition. 

Learn More

Water & Drought

Leading the proactive response from landowners, on the land and through policy, to the Western water crisis.

Water in the West

The West's water crisis is a challenge landowners are rising to, with the right support.

Learn More

The Working Wild Challenge

Thriving ranches and thriving wildlife.

Landowner leadership to reduce conflicts between wildlife and livestock

Our approach leads to stronger partnerships, more resilient ranches, and ultimately, better-connected landscapes.

Learn More

OnLand_Logo_SMark_Black

On Land

The Voice of Stewardship in the American West
Magazine + Podcast

WLA's magazine

On Land tells the stories of stewardship in a new West, in the voices of the people who are living it, at the leading edge of a future that puts people and nature together again for the benefit of both.

Read Now

Listen to our new Podcast!

AWARD-WINNING PODCAST | Season 2 out now!

Working Wild University

Working Wild U is our award-winning documentary podcast that takes you out into the field, forest and range with the people and wildlife of the American West to tell you the big stories at the heart of the struggle to sustain resilient and connected landscapes and communities. Season 2 takes a close look at the Endangered Species Act where it meets the ground on working lands across the West.
 
Season 1 explored wolves in the West - from extermination to recovery, to uncovering what it really means to share the landscape with these iconic carnivores. 
LATEST FILM

The Fish & the Flame

Our award-winning short film shows how Tim Haarmann, ranch manager at Banded Peak Ranch, and Jim White, a biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, collaborated to save one of the last remaining populations of nearly-extinct San Juan cutthroat trout, just as a wildfire threatens to decimate the fish.

PROTECTING WHAT MATTERS IN THE WEST

WORKING LANDS, CONNECTED LANDSCAPES, NATIVE SPECIES

Together these things make up the revered and vital character of the American West. Landowner leaders are stepping up to keep them intact.

We know that the people living and working closest to the earth every day are our best hope for overcoming the challenges we face in the West. Can you help by answering just one question right now?

OUR MISSION

Western Landowners Alliance advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes and native species.

OUR VISION

We envision a future in which private and leased public lands in the West are resilient to stressors, healthy, and biologically diverse, and provide for prosperous rural livelihoods and critical ecological services.

OUR APPROACH

We provide a collective voice, a peer network and a shared knowledge base for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy.

What We Do

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VOICE

Bringing landowner perspectives and stories to bear on major issues shaping the West.

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STEWARDSHIP

WLA’s peer network and shared knowledge base is designed for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy.

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POLICY

Advancing pragmatic, common ground solutions that sustain working lands, connected landscapes and native species.

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