Western Water Forum
Join us to bring land back into the western water conversation!
Conversations about water in the West (and at CRWUA) often fail to consider the critical connection between water and land.
In a series of engaging conversations between scientists and land managers, we will investigate how we can and are improving the water holding capacity of soil, the role of transpiration in precipitation, opportunities to reduce dust on snow, the relationship between irrigation, and biodiversity, and more key issues.
Watch Now: Can landowners reverse desertification in the West?
Watch the recording of the last webinar of our summer series, where we explored the concept of regreening from the perspective of landowners from across the West, and the scientists studying their work and others like it. We dove into methodologies used for regreening on private lands, their scientific and practical implications, and their significance for the water cycle and landscape-scale impacts.
Take this this opportunity to hear what landowners and scientists who are exploring this work had to say during the live event on August 30th.
USDA Secretarial Memo is a Win-Win for Wildlife and Working Lands
The memorandum directs agencies within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to consider habitat connectivity in planning and programs in a manner that recognizes State and Tribal authorities and respects private property rights.
In addition to increased coordination, the memorandum also emphasized the need to improve USDA program delivery, increase compatibility between programs, remove barriers to Tribal participation, coordinate and co-produce science, and incorporate traditional ecological knowledge.
Priorities
The Habitat Lease
Critical habitat for wildlife in the West is disappearing at an alarming rate. We're working on a big solution.
A simple, proven model, applied at scale
Habitat leases are designed to secure existing habitat and ecological services currently provided on private lands that meet threshold requirements for ecological site condition.
Water & Drought
Water in the West
The West's water crisis is a challenge landowners are rising to, with the right support.
The Working Wild Challenge
Thriving ranches and thriving wildlife.
Landowner leadership to reduce conflicts between wildlife and livestock
Our approach leads to stronger partnerships, more resilient ranches, and ultimately, better-connected landscapes.
On Land
The Voice of Stewardship in the American West
Magazine + Podcast
WLA's magazine
On Land tells the stories of stewardship in a new West, in the voices of the people who are living it, at the leading edge of a future that puts people and nature together again for the benefit of both.
The Habitat Lease
Critical habitat for wildlife in the West is disappearing at an alarming rate. We're working on a big solution.
A simple, proven model, applied at scale
Habitat leases are designed to secure existing habitat and ecological services currently provided on private lands that meet threshold requirements for ecological site condition.
Water & Drought
Water in the West
The West's water crisis is a challenge landowners are rising to, with the right support.
The Working Wild Challenge
Thriving ranches and thriving wildlife.
Landowner leadership to reduce conflicts between wildlife and livestock
Our approach leads to stronger partnerships, more resilient ranches, and ultimately, better-connected landscapes.
On Land
The Voice of Stewardship in the American West
Magazine + Podcast
WLA's magazine
On Land tells the stories of stewardship in a new West, in the voices of the people who are living it, at the leading edge of a future that puts people and nature together again for the benefit of both.
PROTECTING WHAT MATTERS IN THE WEST
WORKING LANDS, CONNECTED LANDSCAPES, NATIVE SPECIES
Together these things make up the revered and vital character of the American West. Landowner leaders are stepping up to keep them intact.
We know that the people living and working closest to the earth every day are our best hope for overcoming the challenges we face in the West. Can you help by answering just one question right now?
OUR MISSION
Western Landowners Alliance advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes and native species.
OUR VISION
We envision a future in which private and leased public lands in the West are resilient to stressors, healthy, and biologically diverse, and provide for prosperous rural livelihoods and critical ecological services.
OUR APPROACH
We provide a collective voice, a peer network and a shared knowledge base for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy.
What We Do
VOICE
Bringing landowner perspectives and stories to bear on major issues shaping the West.
STEWARDSHIP
WLA’s peer network and shared knowledge base is designed for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy.
POLICY
Advancing pragmatic, common ground solutions that sustain working lands, connected landscapes and native species.
The West Needs Your Voice
Join our collective effort and enjoy the benefits of membership.
MEDIA CENTER
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Become a member for free today and we will send you the news and policy developments critical to the economic and ecological health of working lands.
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