Sara Brodnax: Growing Returns

The Senate farm bill includes important provisions for conservation on America’s working farms, ranches and forestlands that ultimately benefit both producers and endangered wildlife.

A proposed 5,000-well oil and gas project in eastern Wyoming could have disastrous consequences for local communities and wildlife.

A landowner-led conservation effort in Wyoming has sparked a new market and has now created a new job. The University of Wyoming recently announced the hiring of a new pilot administrator of the Wyoming Conservation Exchange, a voluntary, market-based program that seeks to enroll local landowners in landscape-scale conservation of greater sage-grouse, mule deer and hydrologic services. Eric […]

Ranchers and other private landowners have a critical role to play in conserving wildlife like the greater sage-grouse, which could face listing under the Endangered Species Act in 2015. Home to nearly half of the greater sage-grouse’s remaining habitat, Wyoming is a landscape critical to the recovery of the species. A full 40 percent of […]