Policy
Western Water Threatened by Wildfire: It’s Not Just a Public Lands Issue
A report by the American Forest Foundation, highlights the important role states can play in empowering private landowners to protect forested headwaters that supply millions of Westerners with clean water,…
Read More...Principles for State Water Planning
Many states, including Colorado, New Mexico, and Montana, are implementing statewide Water Planning. WLA drafted and adopted these principles for use by landowners who are engaging in these planning processes…
Read More...Restoring America’s Rural Economies, Land and Wildlife
WLA’s work is led and informed by experienced landowners and managers who have a vested stake in both the economic and environmental well being of the West’s great landscapes and…
Read More...Toward a Healthy and Productive West
Five common sense principles endorsed by more than 130 organizations light the path to a better West.
Read More...Farm Bill programs cultivate healthy forests in Colorado
Check out the new ColoradoBiz op-ed Farm Bill programs cultivate healthy forests in Colorado by WLA’s ED Lesli Allison on the importance of supporting investment in stewardship of healthy forests and watersheds…
Read More...WLA 2017 Policy Agenda
A brief overview of WLA’s 2017 policy agenda
Read More...USDA Partners with Farmers and Ranchers to Protect More Than 500,000 Acres of Working Grasslands
Nov. 30, 2016 – Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Taylor today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will accept more than 504,000 acres that…
Read More...USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
Nov. 4, 2016 – Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Taylor today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will offer a new Conservation Reserve Program…
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...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…
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