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Members of the Western Landowners Alliance enjoy and benefit from a West-wide network of peers who own and manage private and leased public lands. By sharing knowledge and resources, our members help one another save time and money, and avoid costly mistakes. In fact, many landowners and managers are actively engaged in innovative management practices, scientific research and collaborative partnerships. WLA members are using this network to learn from others’ boots-on-the-ground experience for everything from landscape-scale management decisions down to equipment recommendations. Working together, with support from a highly qualified staff, WLA also enables its members to influence state and federal policies directly impacting private lands.TRANSCRIPT
The WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected
landscapes, and native species
“The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains
of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” –Wendell Berry
Our ProgramsWater and Watersheds Advancing policies and practices that conserve water resources for agriculture, support healthy stream systems and sustain future generations.
Sustainable Economies Developing incentives and strategies to increase land health, profitability and rural economic vitality.
Energy Planning Improving planning and implementation of energy development on private and leased public lands.
Working Lands Health Improving the stewardship and success of working lands through shared knowledge, science and education.
Native Species Supporting landowners managing for wildlife habitat, native species and connected landscapes.
Land Use Policy Ensuring landowners have a voice in the policies shaping the West.
We invite you to join us!
We believe economic vitality and conservation go hand-in-hand. Given that private lands encompass the most productive and biologically diverse portions of the Western landscape, including the majority of water resources, landowners have a pivotal role to play. WLA provides a collective voice on critical economic and policy issues, a peer-to-peer network, and a shared knowledge base for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy.
The Western Landowners Alliance brings the perspective and voice of private landowners to bear on the major issues of the day, seeking pragmatic solutions to formidable challenges:
How can we strengthen the economic viability of our lands while ensuring ecological integrity and wise resource use?
How can we balance energy development with other resource needs?
How can we conserve our precious water resources?
How can we respond to a changing climate?
How can we ensure that the biological diversity that sustains our ecosystems - and ultimately us - will endure into the future?
How can we pass healthy lands and the knowledge to manage them down to future generations?
Standing shoulder to shoulder and connected through a west- wide network, the members of the Western Landowners Alliance will take a leading role in shaping the future of the West.
“Innovative stewardship and conservation progress on working lands remains under-represented politically and socially, and is not sufficiently funded or valued by markets. We must change that.” –Mary Conover, Board Member
Promoting good policy foundations for flexible and practical best stewardship on working lands
Influencing the implementation of policies via cooperation with land management agencies and decision leaders
Creating and advocating for a community of landowners, managers, and advisors committted to landscape-scale conser-vation on working lands
Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is a rapidly growing network of landowners who share a vision of a healthy West that sustains its natural and cultural values well into the future.
Our ProgramsWater and Watersheds Advancing policies and practices that conserve water resources for agriculture, support healthy stream systems and sustain future generations.
Sustainable Economies Developing incentives and strategies to increase land health, profitability and rural economic vitality.
Energy Planning Improving planning and implementation of energy development on private and leased public lands.
Working Lands Health Improving the stewardship and success of working lands through shared knowledge, science and education.
Native Species Supporting landowners managing for wildlife habitat, native species and connected landscapes.
Land Use Policy Ensuring landowners have a voice in the policies shaping the West.
We invite you to join us!
We believe economic vitality and conservation go hand-in-hand. Given that private lands encompass the most productive and biologically diverse portions of the Western landscape, including the majority of water resources, landowners have a pivotal role to play. WLA provides a collective voice on critical economic and policy issues, a peer-to-peer network, and a shared knowledge base for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy.
The Western Landowners Alliance brings the perspective and voice of private landowners to bear on the major issues of the day, seeking pragmatic solutions to formidable challenges:
How can we strengthen the economic viability of our lands while ensuring ecological integrity and wise resource use?
How can we balance energy development with other resource needs?
How can we conserve our precious water resources?
How can we respond to a changing climate?
How can we ensure that the biological diversity that sustains our ecosystems - and ultimately us - will endure into the future?
How can we pass healthy lands and the knowledge to manage them down to future generations?
Standing shoulder to shoulder and connected through a west- wide network, the members of the Western Landowners Alliance will take a leading role in shaping the future of the West.
“Innovative stewardship and conservation progress on working lands remains under-represented politically and socially, and is not sufficiently funded or valued by markets. We must change that.” –Mary Conover, Board Member
Promoting good policy foundations for flexible and practical best stewardship on working lands
Influencing the implementation of policies via cooperation with land management agencies and decision leaders
Creating and advocating for a community of landowners, managers, and advisors committted to landscape-scale conser-vation on working lands
Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is a rapidly growing network of landowners who share a vision of a healthy West that sustains its natural and cultural values well into the future.
“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
www.westernlandownersalliance.org
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