Webinar
Restoring the Western Water Cycle: Can we manage land and water to improve the water cycle in the West?
Zoomhttps://youtu.be/ZwsCg7Zb8sE The first webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water Webinar series called attention to the need to consider the larger water cycle and the feedback loops between the living landscape, land stewardship and water availability, including the possibility of managing the water cycle to maximize precipitation. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from scientists, advocates and…
Webinar: Accessing NRCS Funding for tools to protect livestock from wolves and other large carnivores
USDA’s Colorado Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office and Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) are announcing $2.5 million in funding opportunities for agricultural producers in Colorado counties that have experienced significant livestock losses to wolves and other large carnivores. Agricultural producers interested in implementing land management activities including range riding, carcass management and electric fencing to…
Policy Opportunities for Western Working Lands in the next Congress and Federal Administration
Join WLA’s new Chief Policy Officer, Traci Bruckner, and WLA CEO Lesli Allison for a special live, members-only event to learn about the many ways we can advance policies that support vibrant rural communities and thriving working lands and wildlife. There are major opportunities before us that WLA is poised to seize. Come find out…
Beneath Our Feet: Are groundwater easements a solution for the west?
Zoomhttps://youtu.be/8ZSrMTZHmqE The second webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water and Working Lands Webinar series will explore the topic of groundwater easements as a potential solution for addressing groundwater shortages. We’ll hear how these programs have been designed, implemented, and received by select communities, and if groundwater easements really can become an effective tool in combating water…
The Monarch Proposed Listing and Western Landowners: What you need to know
ZoomIn this WLA members-only webinar with USFWS staff, we will hear from the agency personnel responsible for the proposal to add the monarch butterfly as a threatened species to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife under section 4(d) of the ESA, including the designation of critical habitat for the species. WLA's chief policy officer,…
Proposed Grizzly Bear Listing Change: Impacts and Insights for Landowners
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing revisions to the listing of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states, retaining their threatened status under the Endangered Species Act while designating a distinct population segment (DPS).
According to the proposed rule, published January 15, 2025 on the Federal Register, the proposal includes provisions to allow ranchers and state agencies to address human-bear conflicts, including limited lethal control and relocation of bears. The public comment period on the proposal closes March 17, 2025.
Join WLA policy and working wild challenge field staff to discuss this rule, the current listing status, and challenges and solutions to reduce grizzly conflicts in this webinar.
Measuring nature’s benefits: A wetland ecosystem services tool for Prairie Canada
People derive many benefits from nature. These benefits, which are sometimes referred to as ecosystem services, are crucial to human wellbeing, including in the context of mitigation of the dual crises of global climate change and biodiversity loss. Researchers at Ducks Unlimited Canada’s Institute for Wetland and Water-fowl Research have developed a tool to quantify carbon, biodiversity, water regulation and nutrient retention ecosystem services from wetlands in Prairie Canada. This tool allows us to quantify and communicate the benefits of prairie wetland conservation and learn about synergies and trade-offs amongst ecosystem services.
Neighboring Through Drought: Water sharing solutions and what they might mean for the West
ZoomThe third webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water Webinar series will highlight the successes and challenges of community-scale solutions to water sharing during times of drought. What works? What doesn’t? And what do landowners need to know about developing community-led solutions? Our panel of landowners, policy experts, and regional NGO partners will tackle these questions, and…
Irrigating for Food and Fish: Water infrastructure and healthy streams
ZoomThe fourth webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water Webinar series will explore the projects and innovative solutions that enable fish to survive and thrive within heavily irrigated systems. Our panel of landowners, scientists, and engineers will explain what needs to happen to protect fish and farms alike, and how these projects require innovation to overcome unique…
Adapting With Virtual Fencing: Managing for wildlife and healthy grasslands in the Northern Great Plains part 1
Virtual fencing is still a new and developing technology, but for many ranchers, it has transformed how they raise livestock while protecting and rejuvenating native grasslands and wildlife that rely on intact and healthy working lands.
Join Quivira Coalition and World Wildlife Fund for a two-part webinar series on virtual fencing!
May 12: Join Andrew Jakes, a senior research scientist with the Wyoming Migration Initiative and Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and rancher Leo Barthelmess to learn about the connections between sustainable wildlife habitats and virtual fencing ranch management.
May 19: Interested in virtual fencing but don’t know which technology makes the most sense for your operation? Ask questions and hear from a panel of ranchers on different technologies available and what might be a best fit for you.*
*Quivira Coalition and the Sustainable Ranching Initiative are not endorsing any specific technology. This is an educational opportunity to learn what technologies are available to consumers.
You’ll learn about how virtual fencing has been a major innovation for both conservation and flexible livestock management in the Northern Great Plains, and leave with practical, replicable action items for the lands you steward as a grazier.