Posts by WLA Admin
Rancher Dale Lasater remembered for his devotion to cattle, land
At the Dale Lasater Ranch, there was something to be learned. So, for the past five years Téa Saylor, 15, has visited the place on the eastern plains, home to…
Read More...Private land: conservation’s new frontier in America
WLA’s founding board chair Paul Vahldiek and High Lonesome Institute Director Shane Mahoney published an insightful paper on the private land conservation movement in the International Journal of Environmental Studies.…
Read More...USDA Announces McLarty Capital Partners Rural Investment Fund
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the launch of a new private investment fund with the potential to inject $100 million into growth-oriented,…
Read More...Remember key role of private ranches, farms
In an op-ed in the Casper Star Tribune, WLA’s Executive Director Lesli Allison emphasizes the important role privately owned working ranches and farms play in sustaining wildlife and other resource…
Read More...When Development Must Mitigate – Opportunities for Western Landowners
On Thursday, June 16, the Western Landowners Alliance teamed with Jessica Wilkinson from The Nature Conservancy and Brian Kuehl and Robert Veldman from K·Coe Conservation to bring you a webinar titled When…
Read More...RELEASE: Groundbreaking Analysis Maps Rapid Loss of Natural Area in the American West
May 17, 2016 Washington, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind analysis of human impacts on lands in the American West, the Center for American Progress and the nonprofit scientific collective Conservation…
Read More...USDA, Partners Unveil Sage Grouse Management Map
“The USDA’s NRCS is offering people across the West a handy new tool to help them understand and visualize sage grouse territory. Partnering with the University of Montana and other…
Read More...Updated Policy Re-affirms Federal-State Collaboration on Implementing the ESA
February 19, 2016 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (together the Services) have updated a long-standing policy on the role of state fish and…
Read More...The Madison Loses a Friend
We are so very sorry to hear of the passing of Alex Diekmann, a revered conservationist in the Madison Valley and Greater Yellowstone and dear friend to many. Please read…
Read More...How Conservationists Could Have Prevented the Oregon Standoff
TIME.COM, Feb. 4, 2016 – Conservationists and landowners must work together. It didn’t have to happen. One dead, eight in jail, hundreds of thousands of dollars gone to waste—and the root…
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