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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...Private Lands Critical to Conservation
As we celebrate Public Lands Day this weekend, WLA’s Executive Director Lesli Allison highlights the need to consider the landscape as a whole and the critical role private lands play in sustaining…
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...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...USDA to Invest $150 Million through Conservation Stewardship Program to Help Improve Working Lands
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that $150 million in funding is available for agricultural producers through the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), USDA’s largest conservation…
Read More...Op-ed: Cooperation, not standoffs, drives the real work of preserving western ranching
Lesli Allison, Executive Director of WLA contributed an article to the Salt Lake Tribune. Read the article here: Op-ed: Cooperation, not standoffs, drives the real work of preserving western ranching
Read More...WLA Member Sid Goodloe on "Out on the Land"
Sid Goodloe of Carrizo Valley Ranch appeared on the TV show “Out on the Land” last night. “Out on the Land” is a weekly television show on the RFD TV…
Read More...Presidential Memorandum: Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate ReleaseNovember 03, 2015 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE THE ADMINISTRATOR…
Read More...USDA Unveils New Strategy to Conserve Sage Grouse Habitat on Private Lands
Department to Invest Additional $211 Million to Help Ranchers Adopt Proven Conservation Methods PORTLAND, Ore., August 27, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a four-year strategy that will…
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