Conservation
2014 Farm Bill Expires: what does it mean and what’s next?
After more than a year of work by those most interested in passing an on-time Farm Bill – farmers, ranchers and advocacy groups interested in sustainable agriculture, conservation and forestry…
Read More...Water Rights for Restoration
Conservation Finance Series—Part Seven of Eight By Jane Rice and Ben Guillon, WRA, Inc., with guest contributor Bill Wombacher of Ryley Carlock & Applewhite. If you own water rights and…
Read More...Case Study: Flying Diamond Ranch
By guest contributor Kevin Alexander Watt, TomKat Ranch. This year, TomKat Ranch began a project to gather and share the stories of ranchers around the country seeing economic benefits from…
Read More...Payments for Watershed Services
Conservation Finance Series—Part Six of Nine By Jane Rice and Ben Guillon, WRA, Inc., with guest contributor Jeff Corbin of Restoration Systems, LLC. Payments for watershed services totaled $24.7 billion…
Read More...Carbon Crediting
Conservation Finance Series—Part Five of Eight By Jane Rice and Ben Guillon, WRA, Inc., in collaboration with Josh Strauss and Ben Parkhurst, Bluesource LLC. This blog post is focused on…
Read More...Conservation Easements
Conservation Finance Series—Part Four of Eight By Jane Rice and Ben Guillon, WRA, Inc., in collaboration with Erik Glenn, Executive Director of Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust. How do conservation…
Read More...Species Conservation Banking and Habitat Exchanges
Conservation Finance Series—Part Three of Eight How does species conservation banking work? The Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), as well as some other federal and state regulations, prevents the destruction…
Read More...Elk Glade Ranch Tour: A WLA Stewardship in Action Event
Would you like to learn about management of the largest undeveloped parcel of land between New Mexico and Wyoming on the Colorado Front Range? Are you interested in how conservation easements,…
Read More...Western Landowners Alliance offers a “Healthy Soils” Event on the Ute Creek Cattle Company Ranch
Ranchers, botanists, staff from government agencies, soil and water conservation districts and land trusts, and many more gathered at the Rectory B&B in Mosquero, New Mexico on Monday, May 16th…
Read More...Wetland and Stream Mitigation Banking
Conservation Finance Series—Part Two of Eight How does mitigation banking work? Under the federal Clean Water Act and certain state regulations, streams and wetlands are protected resources and cannot be…
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