Wildlife
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...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...Frog and Toad: Western Landowners to the Rescue
It’s summertime, and we loved hearing this NPR story by Melodie Edwards about hundreds of endangered toads being released onto private lands, and the public/private effort that made it happen.…
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...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...Updated Policy Re-affirms Federal-State Collaboration on Implementing the ESA
February 19, 2016 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (together the Services) have updated a long-standing policy on the role of state fish and…
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…
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…
Read More...Sage grouse could evade endangered status
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told Western governors Wednesday she is confident an Endangered Species Act listing of the greater sage grouse can be avoided, but that any additional delays in…
Read More...USDA Report Demonstrates Positive Impact of $300 Million Investment in Sage-grouse Conservation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2015 – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today issued a report showing that since 2010 USDA and its partners in the Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI)…
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