Conservation Finance
| Conservation Finance, economics
The Scale of Landowner Investments in Conservation across the American West
This report answers a basic but often overlooked question: How much are landowners already investing, out of their own pockets, to care for land, water, and wildlife? We surveyed owners of…
| agriculture, Big Game, Conservation, working lands, Wyoming
Wyoming-USDA Big Game Conservation Partnership Impact Report
A Partnership to Conserve Big Game Habitat in Wyoming. The roots of the Partnership were built from a Wyoming initiative that engaged stakeholders in conserving both wildlife migrations and the…
Paying for Stewardship
This guide presents some ways landowners can earn compensation for their stewardship efforts directly or indirectly—schemes sometimes referred to as payments for ecosystem services, ecosystem services markets, or conservation finance. It goes beyond description to provide illustrative case studies of these strategies at work.
Featured Publication
Stewardship with Vision: Caring for New Mexico’s Streams.
Private stewardship of Western land and water plays a vital role in the health of the West. This must-read guide highlights the importance of New Mexico landowners to our economic and environmental future. Our food, water resources, forests, rangelands, and fish and wildlife populations depend on their stewardship. Public policies that support and encourage the voluntary stewardship of our shared resources benefit us all.
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