WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
NM Supreme Court throws out stream certification rule
The New Mexico Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed that a Game Commission rule that allows landowners to restrict access to water that flowed through private property is unconstitutional. The ruling…
View StoryConservation funding essential for state’s well-being
Opinion: It is absolutely critical to New Mexico’s future that significant conservation funding cross the finish line this legislative session. Intensive use has impacted the land’s capacity to support the…
View StoryAdvisory group discuss wolf compensation for livestock depredation in Colorado
The Colorado Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) developing recommendations for Colorado Parks & Wildlife on plans to restore and manage gray wolves in the state spent time hashing over alternative plans…
View StoryWLA’s statement on removal of Jeremy Vesbach from NM Game & Fish Commission
Santa Fe, NM – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham properly understands that agriculture, recreation and conservation are all important to New Mexico and that the rights and interests of diverse stakeholders…
View StoryAnother Game Commission member gone amid stream access fight
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has dismissed another member of a state panel that oversees wildlife conservation and hunting and fishing regulations as a dispute percolates over public access…
View StoryDocumentary focuses on biologists’ effort to save San Juan cutthroat trout following 416 Fire
A new documentary, “The Fish & the Flame,” highlights the successful recovery of the San Juan cutthroat trout in the wake of Durango’s 416 Fire of 2018. The 14-minute film…
View Story“The Fish & the Flame” tells the story of rescuing cutthroat trout during the 416 Fire
Newly discovered San Juan cutthroat trout were saved during the 416 Fire in Durango. “The Fish & the Flame,” a new documentary film, tells the story of a Colorado Parks…
View StoryFish and the Flame
The successful recovery of the San Juan cutthroat trout in the face of Durango’s 416 Fire of 2018 is the subject of a new documentary film produced by Days Edge Productions and…
View StoryNRCS designs grant for Blackfoot Challenge grizzly conflict reduction
Ranchers can use electric fences to keep grizzly bears and other carnivores out of calving areas and barnyards. Sounds like a win-win situation, except electric fencing can be pricey and…
View StoryRanchers, USDA, other agencies gathering to discuss working lands, carnivores and conflict
Beyond Conflict online conference will focus on how to respond to increasing carnivore pressure in ways that keep ranches whole so they can continue to provide vital habitat.
View StoryDeadly attack by grizzly bear prompts calls for action
The deadly attack of a woman by a grizzly bear in Ovando, Montana earlier this week is indicative of a problem that some people say is going to get worse.…
View StoryThe real winners in golf legend Greg Norman’s massive ranch sale
Conservationist business mogul Chuck Kuhn acquired the 12,000 acre property outside of Meeker, then transferred most to neighboring Elk Creek Ranch, a unique private conservation and sporting club that Kuhn…
View Story“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
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