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Western Landowners Alliance is a West-wide organization of landowners, natural resource managers and partners dedicated to keeping working lands whole and healthy for the benefit of people and wildlife. Join us!

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WLA welcomes Jason Fearneyhough as Chief Policy Officer

The Western Landowners Alliance is proud to announce the hiring of Jason Fearneyhough, veteran agriculture and natural resources advocate, as the organization’s first Chief Policy Officer.

“We are at a pivotal moment for both agriculture and conservation in the West,” remarked Western Landowners Alliance CEO Lesli Allison. "Jason is an incredibly well-known and well-respected bridge-builder and advocate for agriculture and sustainable resource management. His astute policy mind makes him the perfect fit for WLA, and for this moment in the West.” 

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$22 million coming to the West to help ranchers steward habitat and reduce conflicts with large carnivores

More than $22 million in USDA funds are coming to help livestock producers across five Western states remain economically viable and steward habitat in predator rich environments, thanks to two Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) grants awarded to a consortium led by Western Landowners Alliance and Heart of the Rockies Initiative.

LELF Passes House (3)

Almost there! Legacy Fund nears full funding! Budget awaits NM Gov's signature

If you care about the future of agriculture, food and water security, wildlife, climate health, community safety, outdoor recreation, and a prosperous economy, the Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund deserves your support.  

We need to let our political leadership know how much we appreciate their foresight and encourage them to take the next step by fully funding the Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund while we still have the opportunity. 

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.

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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.

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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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