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Meet Ellie. A Human of the Working Wild. "I grew

Meet Ellie. A Human of the Working Wild.

"I grew up on a small organic farm in the Willamette Valley, Oregon with parents that I lovingly describe as radical environmentalists, and they proudly wear that hat. Having the opportunity to grow up on a farm and be really active in 4 H showed me the importance of being close to the land. The relationships that I had with my animals and caring for the animals and the land was just… it was my life.

I ended up marrying a man who grew up ranching in the Great Basin, which gave me the opportunity to live and work on ranches in Oregon and Idaho. This put me in a position to forge relationships with people in small, remote ranching communities who had vastly different backgrounds from my own. I fell in love with these communities and the people. I became determined to advocate for them and the important work that they were doing, which is often misunderstood or not well understood."

Read her full story, in her own words, at the link in bio.

Users of Colorado River water: Read this! The Upp

Users of Colorado River water: Read this!

The Upper Colorado River Commission recently announced a new 2023 System Conservation Pilot Program (“2023 SCPP”) to address critically low reservoir levels at Lakes Powell and Mead and to combat prolonged severe drought conditions within the Colorado River Basin.

Like a previous System Conservation Pilot Program established in 2015, the purpose of the 2023 SCPP is “to conserve Colorado River System water through temporary, voluntary, and compensated measures to mitigate the impacts of ongoing drought and depleted storage in the Upper Colorado River Basin.”

The UCRC Notice invites users of Colorado River water to submit proposals for water conservation projects that result in reduced municipal, industrial, or agricultural consumptive use.

The Upper Colorado River Commission/Colorado is currently accepting applications at any stage of completion by February 1st, so applicants don’t need to have all the details worked out yet to get in the queue!

Read the full article at the link in bio.

The farm bill is the single most significant piece

The farm bill is the single most significant piece of legislation related to agriculture in the United States.
With severe drought gripping much of the West, the next farm bill presents a timely opportunity to invest in water security, drought resilience and watershed health.

Read the full article at the link in bio.
#farmbill #drought #waterresources #landownership #watershed

🎥 Can a change in grazing practices increase w

🎥 Can a change in grazing practices increase water availability and bring life back into a landscape? Ask the folks at the Humboldt Ranch.

The Humboldt Ranch encompasses more than 140 miles of streams and over 350,000 acres of mixed public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and private lands owned by Nevada Gold Mines. Collectively, these lands support important habitat for an abundance of wildlife including Nevada’s native Lahontan cutthroat trout. Historically, cattle and sheep grazed on streams and surrounding uplands throughout the growing season every year for over a century. Eventually, soil-stabilizing plants that grow naturally in the area began to decline and miles of willow-lined stream channels became miles of gullies.

Based on a vision that combines economic viability with environmental sustainability, Gregg Simonds, mentor and founding partner of the Humboldt Ranch, implemented a ranch-wide grazing program based on managing livestock for plant recovery. Rather than reducing livestock numbers, the ranch controls when and how long cattle stay in any one area, giving plant communities a chance to grow and thrive. Humboldt Ranch manager, Jesse Braatz and his wife, Ricarda, have been applying the principles of grazing for recovery for almost 15 years now in the face of floods, wildfires, and droughts.

Today, willows and other plants are becoming re-established, old gullies are starting to heal from decades of erosion and drought, beaver are returning, water tables are rising and better habitat conditions are being created for a multitude of wildlife ranging from insects to trout and from birds to pronghorn antelope. In essence, this vast landscape is becoming a “lifescape.”

👀 at the link in our bio. h/t to @intermountain_west_jv and Little Wild films
#ranching #regenerativeag #waterinthewest #onwater #biodiversity

What does it mean for a family ranch to survive an

What does it mean for a family ranch to survive and thrive through generational change?

By staying rooted in relationships with each other and the land, the Babbitt family kept their historic ranch together and secured its legacy for generations to come.

Read this feature piece by Emmy award-winning journalist Bonnie Stevens at the link in bio.

Keeping a close eye on plant life across millions

Keeping a close eye on plant life across millions of acres of public lands allotments is a challenge amplified by drought, aridification, and increasing environmental as well as social challenges.

Yet, new research provides land managers insight into just how they can get a handle on how vegetation is changing across management-relevant scales, from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) allotments and field offices to larger ecoregions.

BLM researchers teamed up with scientists from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and the University of Montana (affiliated with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Working Lands for Wildlife) to use a newly developed remote sensing tool to conduct an assessment of trends in vegetation cover and production for all BLM rangelands in Western states (excluding Alaska) over the last 30 years.

Read about what they found at On Land online. Link in bio.

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