Saving the West’s open spaces comes at a cost. A Colorado county may have a model for the nation’s conservation efforts.
How can we keep working lands open and providing all the ecosystem services and landscape values we care about? Chaffee County’s Community Conservation Connection program, implemented by the Central Colorado…
Read More...Measures to expand and monetize wolf hunting are moving through the Montana State Legislature, creating clashes about values and vocabulary
This week the House Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee heard testimony on two bills that passed out of the Senate earlier this month with near-unanimous Republican support. Senate Bill 267 would allow…
Read More...Who should pay for conservation?
Traditional sources of conservation funding are dwindling, and some believe national park visitors should step up. Lawmakers are looking at ways to increase conservation revenue from the millions of tourists…
Read More...Colorado’s meat industry stands up against anti-meat proclamation
The Colorado agriculture industry was rattled when it came to their attention their governor, Jared Polis, signed a proclamation for March 20 to be a #MeatOut day. To fight against…
Read More...Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say
The Senate-passed stimulus bill aims to compensate Black farmers for systemic racism. $5 billion would go to farmers of color, who have lost 90 percent of their land over the…
Read More...This California startup has a meat test it says can help prevent the next pandemic
Food ID, a San Mateo, California-based startup, has raised $12 million in a Series B round that it says will help improve the safety and transparency of the U.S. meat…
Read More...Swiss study shows that paying people to conserve biodiversity pays off
Swiss farmers are part of a government program that reimburses them for overseeing certain parts of their property in ways that promote biodiversity. And a study published recently in the journal Biodiversity and…
Read More...Building a sustainable U.S. beef system
Sustainability needs to be the business-as-usual approach in the U.S. beef industry in order to ensure long-term food supply, economic security for ranchers and their communities, and a healthy environment…
Read More...USDA encourages producers to complete the cash rents and leases survey
Farmers and ranchers may have received a Cash Rents and Leases survey from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This survey provides the basis for estimates…
Read More...Are American farmers being boxed out of global marketplace?
Getting billions of dollars’ worth of agricultural goods exported from Western ports has apparently been difficult since about the middle of last year, when pandemic restrictions shut down whole economies. As…
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