Conservation
Recreation That Pays It Forward — New Land Stewardship Partnership Invests in Western Working Lands
Western Landowners Alliance and Infinite Outdoors Partner to Support Working Lands Through Recreation DENVER – For generations, recreation has helped sustain working ranches across the West. Hunting, fishing, wildlife watching, and…
Read More...Public Lands Grazing Reform Webinar: What’s Changing and Why It Matters for the West
Denver, CO – Public lands grazing policy affects everything from wildlife habitat and watershed health to wildfire resilience, rural economies and the ranching families who steward these landscapes. To help the…
Read More...Groundbreaking report reveals scale of private landowner investments in conservation
Filling a major gap in our understanding of conservation economics, a new report finds Western landowners invested at least $407.5 million in nature in 2024. Denver — Private lands play…
Read More...Western Landowners Alliance Statement on Colorado Stream Access Laws
The mission of the Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is to sustain working lands, connected landscapes and native species. As landowners and managers, we take seriously the privilege and responsibility of…
Read More...Habitat Leasing Opportunity through USDA’s Grassland Conservation Reserve Program Grows with Important Changes in Western States
Sign-up runs through June 28, 2024. Denver – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday announced the sign-up period for the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program, which will run from…
Read More...New bill would scale up voluntary, locally-led big game conservation on working lands
The Habitat Connectivity on Working Lands Act would build on pilot Migratory Big Game Initiative WLA helped initiate in Wyoming.
Read More...Wyoming Migration Fund to Benefit Working Lands, Big Game Habitat
The Pooled Migration Fund serves as a catalyst to significant federal investments in Wyoming Buffalo, WY – March 6, 2023 – The WYldlife Fund, a nonprofit partner of the Wyoming…
Read More...Wyoming and USDA agree on innovative partnership to conserve wildlife
Washington, DC – This afternoon, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed a memorandum of understanding that ratifies a partnership between the state of Wyoming and the…
Read More...WLA’s statement on New Mexico Supreme Court’s ruling in stream certification case
Santa Fe, NM – Today the New Mexico Supreme Court held that the state’s stream certification rule is unconstitutional. The rule was intended to provide clarification for both landowners, the…
Read More...WLA’s statement on removal of Jeremy Vesbach from NM Game & Fish Commission
Santa Fe, NM – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham properly understands that agriculture, recreation and conservation are all important to New Mexico and that the rights and interests of diverse stakeholders…
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