Can you contribute two cups of coffee a month?
If just 10% of Americans were willing to invest $10/month—less than one streaming subscription, two lattes or a six pack of beer—it would generate more than $3 billion per year to keep our vital working lands whole and healthy for people and wildlife.
What we do for the West
Creating economic and policy solutions
As primary stakeholders with deep personal and financial ties to the land, we ensure that landowners have a direct voice in the policy matters that impact us.
Thriving ranches and thriving wildlife
Your support will provide the matching funds required for us to deliver $22 million in cost-share to producers over the next five years for non-lethal practices to reduce conflicts between wolves and livestock.
Stewardship
We're delivering financial and technical assistance, science and peer learning opportunities to support land stewards in improving the health and productivity of grasslands, rangelands and forests.
Water advocacy
We're creating a positive water future for the West by helping landowners and local communities design, fund and implement projects to restore vital watersheds.
Publications and resources
WLA produces and maintains a library of informative and insightful publications on topics affecting western landowners including agriculture, economics, energy, forest and range, policy, stewardship, water, and wildlife. Members also receive a subscription to our award-winning magazine, On Land.
Events and job boards
WLA holds frequent events and meetings for landowners throughout the West and maintains a comprehensive job board for those looking to hire or or work western ranches.
Join The Headwaters!
By joining the Western Landowners Alliance community of monthly recurring donors, you magnify your impact on the future of the West you cherish.
Create or manage your donor profile here. Update your contact info, access donation receipts, adjust gift amounts, and more.
HEADWATERS FAQ
Still have questions? Call, text or email Micheline Kuehn, Director of Development at 505-466-1495 or mkuehn@westernlandowners.org
Members throw their weight into the most important work in the West
Private ranches, farms and forest properties are an important economic and cultural mainstay for Western rural communities. These working lands provide jobs and a high quality way of life.
They also provide valuable open space, protect crucial habitat and wildlife corridors, harbor the majority of imperiled species and control much of the water, including headwaters critical for healthy watersheds and down-stream users. But we live in a time where they are also under extreme pressure.
Western Landowners Alliance has developed a structured way for working land innovators to protect the intrinsic value of these lands, connect, and share and advocate in ways that protect the land and our way of life - both now and for the
future.
Join with other like-minded people
Find common sense, common ground solutions to the many challenges we face in the West today, including ensuring that working lands support quality livelihoods and human communities while also delivering the values we all care about, like wildlife habitat and clean water.
Promote private stewardship
It's critical that contributions and perspectives from private landowners be communicated and understood both broadly within society and by special interest groups. We tell these stories through media, films, and publications.
Support an active community
WLA helps members share knowledge and best practices that support stewardship including ranch tours, meetings and conference across the West. We also produce Western Digest - a monthly collection of the most relevant land management resources, issues, and events.
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