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FeaturedIrrigating 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…
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FeaturedSoil Solutions to Water Scarcity
Zoomhttps://youtu.be/lL_TuWQkgZo The fifth webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water and Working Lands Stewardship Series will focus on the intersection of soil health, drought resiliency and water scarcity. How – and how much – does soil biology affect the productivity of your land through unpredictable cycles of drought and flood? What are practical, on-the-ground approaches to building…
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Adapting With Virtual Fencing: Managing for wildlife and healthy grasslands in the Northern Great Plains part 1
Virtual EventVirtual 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.
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Digital Marketing for Direct-To Consumer Ranchers
Virtual EventDigital Marketing for Direct-To Consumer Ranchers
Featuring Casey Roe - a consultant specializing in digital marketing for food and farm businessesFree -
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Targeted Grazing for Wildlife, Wildfire and Weeds: Working Lands Webinar
Virtual EventGood grazing is great land stewardship – and can be a profitable, earth-friendly alternative to chemical or mechanical methods of managing vegetation. Join this panel discussion and networking session to hear from graziers paid for precision grazing as a stewardship tool to enhance habitat for rare wildlife, prevent wildfires, combat invasive weeds and more! Get tips on how to set up grazing-based stewardship service businesses, while balancing risk, rewards and quality of life for you and your livestock working in targeted grazing projects across the West.
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FeaturedSurface Water Conservation Programs: What Are They, and Are They Working?
The sixth webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water Webinar series will examine the successes and challenges of compensated water conservation programs. We’ll take a deep dive into what these programs mean for landowners and water users, and what opportunities might exist for finding common-ground solutions for addressing western water shortages within the guardrails of voluntary, temporary, compensated reduction in consumptive water use programs.
Join us to learn more about how these programs work, what they mean for landowners and water users, and how they could play a role in sustaining working lands and watersheds.
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Grassland CRP Explained -Leasing Your Land for Habitat and Conservation
Virtual EventJoin the Western Landowners Alliance and national experts for a practical webinar on the Grassland Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)—a voluntary USDA program that helps landowners conserve rangelands while keeping them in production.
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Webinar Supporting Vibrant Rural Communities through Place-Based Collaboration
lace-based groups lift community needs, while finding areas of agreement and shared purpose to meet a variety of resource challenges. Examples of these groups within Montana include the Madison Valley Ranchlands Group, Big Hole Watershed Committee, the Blackfoot Challenge, and the Centennial Valley Association.
These groups, many of which are landowner and livestock producer-led, may include all or part of a particular community and offer a way to meaningfully engage state and federal wildlife agencies, non-profit organizations and other stakeholder groups to achieve community needs and outcomes supporting working lands and wildlife.
Within this webinar, presenters and panelists will convey how these groups form, focus conflicting ideas towards shared vision, and move ideas to implementation
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Profit Decisions: Avoiding the Five Mistakes Ag Producers Make
What are the foolish uses of profit and what are the wise uses of profit?
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Innovations in Rangeland & Livestock Management Webinar: Grazing Management for a Resilient Ranch
ZoomVirtual EventJoin us for a grounded, practical look at how virtual fencing, remote water sensors, and a focus on soil health can make grazing management more practical and adaptable on working ranches. Jim Armendariz (NRCS State Rangeland Management Specialist) will present on the use of these tools and how they have benefitted his family's ranch. He'll…
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