WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
Could Biden use private land to reach 30×30 goals?
The idea isn’t simply to buy up private property or establish traditional easements. Instead, groups like the Western Landowners Alliance, which represents 15 million acres across the western United States…
View StoryWestern landowners respond to Biden climate and conservation executive actions
The Biden administration’s announcement today of a package of executive actions on climate and conservation includes several elements that the Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) has insisted are critical to making…
View StoryReconciling ranching and conservation
An Oregon rancher reflects upon the potential for holistic grazing to complement conservation.
View StoryGrand Junction is ‘darn hard to get to’: ranchers split on public lands agency’s move west
The Bureau of Land Management is moving from Washington D.C. to Grand Junction, Colorado. Ranchers, some of the constituents with whom the agency works most closely, are divided on the…
View StoryStudy finds biodiversity stewardship incentives can be enhanced by regulatory assurances
A recent study applied a return-on-investment (ROI) perspective to explore better ways to target private-sector conservation engagement under the ESA and identify factors that affect incentives for participation in voluntary…
View StoryCommentary: Congress would be wise to listen to landowners on wildfire bill
WLA’s executive director Lesli Allison, writing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, commends congress for taking up National Prescribed Fire Act of 2020, and urges a continued focus on solutions that…
View StoryGrant to study conflict reduction could have benefits for Colorado wolf reintroduction plan
A large coalition of landowners and conservationists has landed a nearly $900,000 grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service to study ways to reduce the financial and social burden of…
View StoryWLA leads seven-state coalition that wins USDA award to study conflict reduction techniques
For grizzly bears to survive, farmers and ranchers need nonlethal tools that can reduce conflict before lethal means are required. But financing and educating people about those tools is the…
View StoryAs the climate warms, ranchers keep their eyes on the grass
In drought years like this one, ranchers are faced with a number of tough choices and unpleasant trade-offs, according to Lawrence Gallegos, New Mexico field organizer at the Western Landowners Alliance. Decisions…
View StoryLeaders respond to the Grasslands Roadmap draft
Leaders, speakers, and panelists for the “Leaders Respond” session of the 2020 Central Grasslands Roadmap Summit dug in and provided incredibly comprehensive and diverse reflections on the current Roadmap and…
View StorySmall processors step up to ease beef supply-chain woes
Meatpacking plant closures caused by coronavirus outbreaks, including one at the JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, sent shockwaves through the food system. But some small producers were ready to seize…
View StoryCoronavirus-related disruptions in the beef supply chain have spurred changes. Will they last?
COVID-19-driven closures at meatpacking plants have resulted in lower prices for ranchers because of the growing number of cattle in the pipeline. On the other end of the supply chain,…
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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