Policy – Western Landowners Alliance

The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that ranchers who have approved applications through the 2021 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) for forage losses due to severe drought or…

The White House officially released their fiscal year 2023 (FY23) budget request on March 28, 2022. The release of the President’s budget proposal which outlines the administration’s spending priorities, is…

It took a few years, but ag land values in California now reflect action taken by legislators eight years ago to pass the state’s landmark groundwater law. A growing chasm…

U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released an updated version of their legislation, the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.…

Four hunters charged with trespassing in Carbon County Wyoming seek a federal court where their case could resolve the legality of corner crossing to access 1.6 million acres of public…

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, have introduced the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Improvement Act. This legislation…

Colorado is taking a “hard pause” on investigating the viability of demand management, a program that would allow the state to pay water users to temporarily and voluntarily conserve water…

Defining what it means to conserve land and assessing existing conservation projects will be key to meeting New Mexico’s climate goals, state agency leaders said this week. Sarah Cottrell Propst,…

A federal court ruling in February relisting gray wolves as an endangered species across much of the United States could complicate Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort.

In Malheur County’s Cow Valley, state regulators have ignored known issues with overpumping groundwater, leaving the region at risk of economic and ecological damage that will be difficult to reverse.

USDA to Provide Payments to Livestock Producers Impacted by Drought or Wildfire

President Biden Releases FY23 Budget Proposal

Water availability, regs spur farmland value chasm

Senators Fischer, Grassley, Tester, Wyden unveil updated cattle market reform bill

Corner crossers reach for federal court, access to 1.6M Western acres

New Legislation Would Improve Grazing and Wildlife Habitat Potential of Conservation Reserve Program

Colorado hits a “hard pause” on water demand management as it waits for other states to catch up

New Mexico agencies: defining conservation key to 30×30

CPW no longer final arbiter of wolf reintroduction after court relists species as endangered

Race to the bottom: How big business took over Oregon’s first protected aquifer