WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
Working group to develop protocol for storing carbon
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group, which includes WLA, to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in…
View StoryJennie Gordon: unique background positions First Lady to help
There’s a link between the first lady’s hunger initiative and her connection to Wyoming’s agricultural industry, according to Jessica Crowder, policy director for Western Landowners Alliance. “The health of the…
View StoryWLA hosts meeting to work on solutions to ranching with large carnivores
Grizzly bear and wolf predation is one of the biggest challenges that ranchers face. Potential solutions can benefit livestock producers, conservationists and wildlife agencies. Over 100 people with a stake in…
View StorySurvey: Montanans want more state conservation spending
Montanans care a lot about public land access and conserving wildlife and they like the idea of the state spending more money on those things, according to survey results released…
View StoryGroups strike consensus in debates over Wyoming’s migration corridors
A series of recommendations sent to the governor Monday laid out a possible blueprint for how Wyoming could protect and preserve its iconic migration corridors for years to come.
View StoryCattle call on the eastern plains
Fifth-generation Flying Diamond Ranch builds land stewardship into their business model.
View StoryWestern landowners release new guide to reduce conflict
Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) has released a wildlife guide produced by and for landowners and practitioners constructively engaged in one of the greatest conservation challenges of our time—how to share…
View StoryAllison: Farm bill is a big win for every American
It didn’t appear in many front-page headlines, but Congress just passed a five-year, $867 billion piece of legislation in a bipartisan, landslide vote. In today’s political climate, this kind of…
View StoryColorado Women in Ranching: A spirit of nurturing, sustainability is alive at San Juan Ranch
Defying convention is standard at San Juan Ranch. And with the mounting pressures from prolonged drought, climate change and unsustainably low crop prices, Sullivan and her partner George Whitten’s idiosyncratic take…
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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