Water
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…
Read More...Western Digest – April 2018
News and opportunities on working lands, water and wildlife The news stories and articles included in this digest point to the increasing challenges of making a living off the land,…
Read More...Western Digest – March 2018
News and opportunities on working lands, water and wildlife With spring fresh in the air and the anticipation of new grass in the pasture and new projects on the ground,…
Read More...WLA Debuting Latest Film in Santa Fe – January 25th
WLA is very pleased to be working with Taos, New Mexico film-maker Pablo Irlando-Wildman on our latest film: “Water is Life.” Based in Taos, New Mexico and focused specifically on…
Read More...WLA joins key groups calling on Trump to prioritize Western water needs
On March 16, Western Landowners Alliance joined a group of agricultural water users and conservationists in a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump encouraging him to include in his Fiscal…
Read More...WLA Board Chair Featured in Video on Public Lands
WLA Board Chair Jeff Laszlo, owner and operator of Granger Ranches near Ennis, Montana, discusses his passion for our public lands and how they rely on them for their business…
Read More...Feds may order first cuts in water from Colorado River; CU team issues warning to next president
Feds say Arizona, California and Nevada could face shortages starting in 2018. A University of Colorado team led by a former Obama administration water chief has issued a water warning…
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...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...How Conservationists Could Have Prevented the Oregon Standoff
TIME.COM, Feb. 4, 2016 – Conservationists and landowners must work together. It didn’t have to happen. One dead, eight in jail, hundreds of thousands of dollars gone to waste—and the root…
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