Patrick. A human of the working wild
Ranching became a way of life for me many years ago. The values that it instills, the benefits of open space, the wildlife habitat provided by ranching land, utilizing renewable
Online Tools for Range Health
Rangeland Analysis PlatformRAP quickly visualizes and analyzes vegetation data for the United States. You can use the tool to quickly analyze trends at the pasture, ranch, watershed or beyond. Drawing on
How to collaborate for landscape-scale restoration
What does it take to do restoration at scale, and manage large, multi-jurisdictional landscapes for a suite of ecosystem services? The answer is collaboration. But what makes collaboration successful? Kris Hulvey,
Composting a recipe for conflict reduction
This is a simple recipe that is spreading from community to community in the Northern Rockies, just ahead of growing grizzly bear populations. It’s called carcass composting, and it’s another
Can the center hold? Collaborative conservation is the way out West
This issue of On Land takes a look into the rise of landowner-led, collaborative conservation. Pioneered by ranchers from the U.S.-Mexico border to Montana’s Blackfoot Valley, it is a movement
Catahoula Crosses and Cowboying on the Open Range
Working long days moving cattle and building fences in the open range is demanding work. Knowledge that a grizzly bear may be bedded in each draw or munching service berries
Trail Blazer
She sold her cows today. I heard her whisper, "thank you", as the trucks pulled away. The young buyers were there and she passed them the torch with a grace
Lava Lake Institute’s Wood River Wolf Project
Several sheep producers in wolf country in south-central Idaho have successfully adapted their operations to deter wolf predation. Brian Bean, sheep rancher and president of the Lava Lake Institute for Science
Using Dogs to Reduce Conflicts in Rangeland Settings
When it comes to reducing conflicts with wildlife, dogs may just be a landowner’s best friend. Whether protecting human and livestock safety in the yard, pasture or open range, dogs
Larry. A Human of the Working Wild
Humans of the Working Wild is a collection of stories from people in the West who are living, recreating and working with and among wildlife on working lands, lightly edited from
Any national maps of conservation need to come from local communities
Of all the components of the Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful Initiative (which includes the Biden administration’s goal to conserve 30% of land and water by the year 2030),
30×30 and the recreation-conservation seesaw
Within the “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful” report, President Biden’s most detailed public plan to date on how to implement the 30x30 goal, are two inauspicious policy recommendations. One