Caring for the Little Dolores, headwaters to confluence
The Mountain Island Ranch straddles the Colorado-Utah border, from high country to canyon bottoms, riparian wetlands and desert, and public and private lands due to classic Western checkerboarding. The ranch
Re-restoring the Animas after a post-fire flood
When erosion-control solutions designed and funded by the NRCS washed away in a flood, Dave Koeberle stepped in with $60,000 of his own money to rebuild and improve the structure. In
The cost to build conservation into the business plan
Idaho’s King’s Crown Organic Farm and Ranch In southern Idaho, where annual precipitation averages less than eight inches and spring winds can strip bare fields down to sand in a matter
Cade Rensink: Fire is an investment in healthy prairie
Marty Robbins’s “Prairie Fire,” a rollicking, anxious country ballad, describes the fear these huge blazes struck into the hearts of cowboys: fires so big they went from horizon to horizon.
The Scale of Landowner Investments in Conservation Across the American West
Preface From Yellowstone’s geysers and grizzly bears to the red rock canyons of the Southwest, the public lands of the American West occupy a powerful place in our national identity. They