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.
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.
On Land
The Voice of Stewardship in the American West
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.
Working lands are the future of conservation
By Lesli Allison
Farms and ranches are the cornerstones of both human communities and the ecosystems we all depend on. And they are disappearing.
What landowners need to know about the ACE Act
By Zach Bodhane
Provisions in the ACE Act support western landowners and federal land grazing permittees in providing crucial habitat and ecosystem services by providing economic relief and policy options for livestock producers.
Resources for landowners battling fire and drought
By Jessica Crowder
These are the resources every landowner facing fire and drought needs to know about.
Can a fence that allows elk to pass easily stop the disease they carry?
By Louis Wertz
Brucellosis is a highly infectious bacterial disease that most Americans are fortunate to have never heard of. To keep it that way, we need ranchers like Mick McCarty.
New Mexico wades into troubled waters
By Lesli Allison
The overlooked impacts of the perpetual push for ever more recreational access to and through private land.
NEW REPORT
Aspen Next Generation
Conversations from Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico
Aspen trees and forests are especially important in the Rocky Mountains. Aspens add beauty to landscapes, foster high diversity and productivity of understory plants, provide for the habitat needs of many species of animals, and moderate fire behavior. The Aspen Next Generation project aimed to foster the future of aspen by pulling together insights from landowners, agency personnel, and scientists across southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
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.
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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.
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