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Growing Abundant Rangelands
February 7, 2017 The TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation, a WLA member organization, has published a beautiful, easy to read and easy to implement grazing guide. With recommendations for planning, practicing…
Read More...Let's Keep and Care for Our Public Lands
February 1, 2017 Western Landowners Alliance today sent a letter to Congress opposing two bills that would sell more than 3 million acres of public land and remove federal law…
Read More...NRCS to Expand Targeted Conservation Effort for Wildlife on Agricultural Lands
Nov. 29, 2016 – From the northern bobwhite to trout and salmon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is adding dozens of new target species to its premier wildlife conservation…
Read More...Remember key role of private ranches, farms
In an op-ed in the Casper Star Tribune, WLA’s Executive Director Lesli Allison emphasizes the important role privately owned working ranches and farms play in sustaining wildlife and other resource…
Read More...Utah Ranchers, BLM Propose Innovative Grazing Management Strategy
According to the Salt Lake City Tribune, ranchers, BLM and county officials in northern Utah are partnering to consolidate ten separate grazing allotments into one 135,000-acre management unit. The proposal would…
Read More...Ferrets return home to Meeteetse
Ranchers Lenox Baker and Allen Hogg welcomed blackfooted ferrets back home to their ranches in Meetettse, Wyoming, this week. Among the world’s most endangered mammals, the blackfooted ferrets were actually…
Read More...When Development Must Mitigate – Opportunities for Western Landowners
On Thursday, June 16, the Western Landowners Alliance teamed with Jessica Wilkinson from The Nature Conservancy and Brian Kuehl and Robert Veldman from K·Coe Conservation to bring you a webinar titled When…
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 Begins 49th Enrollment Period for the Conservation Reserve Program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today reminded farmers and ranchers that the next general enrollment period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) begins today, Dec. 1,…
Read More...NRCS ACEP Application Batching Deadline for New Mexico – January 29, 2016
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) New Mexico will end its first, and potentially only, FY 2016 Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) application period on January 29, 2016. See the email…
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