Economics
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...Western Digest – September 2018
News and opportunities on working lands, water and wildlife Days are getting shorter. Aspens are turning gold, orange and red. The end of summer is in the air. Articles in…
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...Western Digest – August 2018
News and opportunities on working lands, water and wildlife Happy August! Articles in this issue range from a cattle business cost study to grassland carbon credits and border wall impacts…
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...Western Digest – July 2018
News and opportunities on working lands, water and wildlife Days are long, hummingbirds are in the air and summer is well-underway at WLA. Our hope is that each of you…
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...Western Digest – May 2018
News and opportunities on working lands, water and wildlife Articles this month range from a new report on the state of U.S. agricultural lands to species conservation banking and from…
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