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Girija Kulkarni is the Communications and Media Manager at Western Landowners Alliance, where she focuses on elevating landowners’ stories, voices, and stewardship across the West. She is driven by a deep belief that the people who live and work on the land are essential partners in conservation, and that storytelling can play a powerful role in advancing solutions that sustain both working lands and wildlife. She lives in Denver, Colorado where she enjoys spending time with her two rescue dogs, wrangling horses, and doing anything that gets her outside and connected to the landscapes and communities she works to support.

Stewardship in Action

Carlos and Nelia Armendariz built their New Mexico ranching operation from a small grazing lease into a 14,000-acre enterprise, pairing changes in grazing management with investments in water infrastructure, rangeland

Stewardship in Action

CARMEN, Idaho — On October 2, landowners, ranchers, agency and nonprofit partners, and community members gathered at J Lazy S Angus Ranch in Carmen, Idaho, to see how the Smith

On Water, Steward Tips

Ranch managers across the West are adapting their operations to increasingly variable conditions and sharing what they’re learning along the way.  Drought is nothing new to ranchers in the American West. What is

Steward Tips

For ranch managers and landowners across the West, wildfire preparedness begins long before smoke appears on the horizon. They prepare by investing in equipment, infrastructure, and emergency response capacity, making and practicing a