western landowners alliance
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Finding common ground between Colorado’s private and public lands
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It’s hard to think of a time in recent history when we focused more on division than we do now. It’s often said there are two Colorados – one in the metro areas clustered along the Front Range, the other in Colorado’s vast rural expanses. While most of these conversations center on traffic, affordable housing,…
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IN RESPONSE: Farm bill is an investment in rural Colorado’s economy
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Farms and ranches are the lifeblood of Colorado’s rural economies and communities, utilizing local suppliers, paying local labor, generating income that is spent in local stores and growing healthy and affordable food for Colorado and the world. Right now, Colorado’s agricultural industry is also facing its most difficult economic outlook in years. Nationally, net farm income…
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Private landowners poised to make — not break — sage grouse’s recovery
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If you’ve farmed, ranched or owned land in the West, you’ve probably participated in a few discussions about the greater sage-grouse and its imperiled habitat. After two years of relative quiet on this front, Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke rekindled the debate last fall by opening up for public comment the 2015 agreement…
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How best to preserve land and conserve Western resources? Try collaboration, group says
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A coalition of Western lands advocates announced it has written Congress and the White House, urging them to “advance policies that encourage rural economic health and a productive agricultural sector, while simultaneously conserving natural resources and the landscapes in which Westerners live and work.” The group of some 130 organizations led by the Santa Fe,…
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Partnership, not partisanship, is answer to survival of rural livelihood and species recovery
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As Congress returns from the August recess, many questions remain about the future of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Recently, the House Natural Resources Committee heard a series of legislative proposals addressing the program’s effectiveness, implementation, and even the legitimacy of the Act itself. While opinions about the ESA vary widely, Western Landowners Alliance believes…
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Western guvs’ tilt on Endangered Species Act gets thumbs-up from landowners
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On the same day they heard Trump administration Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke bemoan a “breach of trust” between the public and the federal government in the West, the region’s governors called for changes in a federal law they say bears some of the blame for that breach. The Western Governors Association adopted a resolution at their annual meeting…
