Jason Fearneyhough joins Western Landowners Alliance as Chief Policy Officer 

By WLA | February 28, 2024

Cheyenne – The Western Landowners Alliance is proud to announce the hiring of Jason Fearneyhough, veteran agriculture and natural resources advocate, as the organization’s first Chief Policy Officer.  Fearneyhough previously…

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The Hill: Trump must put rural America to work

By WLA Admin | Dec 2, 2016
November 29, 2016 – Many rural communities, especially forest-dependent communities, have yet to recover from the economic downturn. In fact, some areas like northern Maine or parts of the South…
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USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP

By WLA Admin | Nov 10, 2016
Nov. 4, 2016 – Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Taylor today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will offer a new Conservation Reserve Program…
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Feds may order first cuts in water from Colorado River; CU team issues warning to next president

By WLA Admin | Nov 7, 2016
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…
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Rancher Dale Lasater remembered for his devotion to cattle, land

By WLA Admin | Oct 31, 2016
At the Dale Lasater Ranch, there was something to be learned. So, for the past five years Téa Saylor, 15, has visited the place on the eastern plains, home to…
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Private land: conservation’s new frontier in America

By WLA Admin | Oct 31, 2016
WLA’s founding board chair Paul Vahldiek and High Lonesome Institute Director Shane Mahoney published an insightful paper on the private land conservation movement in the International Journal of Environmental Studies.…
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USDA Announces McLarty Capital Partners Rural Investment Fund

By WLA Admin | Oct 14, 2016
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the launch of a new private investment fund with the potential to inject $100 million into growth-oriented,…
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Remember key role of private ranches, farms

By WLA Admin | Oct 3, 2016
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…
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Private Lands Critical to Conservation

By Lesli Allison | Sep 26, 2016
As we celebrate Public Lands Day this weekend, WLA’s Executive Director Lesli Allison highlights the need to consider the landscape as a whole and the critical role private lands play in sustaining…
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Utah Ranchers, BLM Propose Innovative Grazing Management Strategy

By Kelly Cash | Aug 31, 2016
According to the Salt Lake City Tribune, ranchers, BLM and county officials in northern Utah are partnering to consolidate ten separate grazing allotments into one 135,000-acre management unit. The proposal would…
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Ferrets return home to Meeteetse

By Kelly Cash | Aug 1, 2016
Ranchers Lenox Baker and Allen Hogg welcomed blackfooted ferrets back home to their ranches in Meetettse, Wyoming, this week. Among the world’s most endangered mammals, the blackfooted ferrets were actually…
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