Working Lands for Wildlife

It's the new year! Are you looking for a new position in 2025? Our team is hiring! ‼️ We are in search of an Assistant Director of Communications to help tell the story of voluntary, incentive-based conservation on working lands. This is a fully remote and contract position. Are you interested? Learn more here: https://buff.ly/4fOW7rI

When it comes to lambs, wool, and resource conservation, Ben Lehfeldt is modeling innovation well beyond the borders of his ranch. 🐑 Learn how sheep and cattle rancher, Ben Lehfeldt, is working with the NRCS to make his operation more profitable and better for wildlife: https://buff.ly/4geiZBF Photo: Ben Lehfeldt

Our team is hiring! ‼️ We are in search of an Assistant Director of Communications to help tell the story of voluntary, incentive-based conservation on working lands. Fully remote ✔️ Contract position ✔️ Are you interested? Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gKfkREVp

A shared vision: we keep working lands intact, productive, and profitable. Private agricultural lands supply our nation's food and fiber. They also provide vital habitats for wildlife to roam, support rural communities, and safeguard our water and soils. WLFW offers a paradigm for conserving working landscapes through voluntary cooperation and incentives. This approach is tailor-made to meet the needs of focal species and individual landowners in target landscapes. Follow us to learn more. ⬆️

The success of locally-led land conservation in the Green River Basin is a major milestone for working lands and wildlife. 🙌🏻 Residential development is the biggest threat to the wildlife and ranching heritage that make the Green River region so special. Luckily, partners have worked together at the watershed scale to secure conservation easements in the right places, keeping much of this critical sagebrush landscape intact against all odds. The success here is not random: it is very strategic, resulting from concerted collaboration coupled with cutting-edge research and technology. A shared conservation vision allows NRCS and its local partners to fund easements that safeguard the best wildlife habitat, including vital travel routes and stopover areas for big game like elk, pronghorn, and mule deer. Follow these steps to replicate success where you live or to help others do the same!

Virtual fence (VF) has the potential to revolutionize grazing systems by allowing dynamic control of livestock distribution and duration. The system uses invisible barriers, established by Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, to influence livestock movement with a combination of auditory and electrical cues without a physical fence. 🐮 However, it can be complicated and expensive. 🫤🤑 This digital guide was created to empower ranchers and land managers to effectively evaluate and use VF for improved rangeland management. Explore the foundations of VF factsheets, watch the videos, access geospatial resources, and explore handouts from workshops and webinars to better understand a VF system here: https://buff.ly/3Bqgihl

#ThrowbackThursday... Do you remember our video on Awareness to Action - Producers from the Great Plains Share Their Thoughts on Battling Encroaching Woody Plants? This video features producers from across the Great Plains who have partnered with the NRCS to address encroaching trees that are taking over productive rangelands. Watch it now! ⬇️

🚨Podcast Alert 🚨 Western Lead for Working Lands for Wildlife Lead, Tim Griffiths, is featured in the latest episode of Fay Ranches Land Investor Podcast, alongside Tom Watson, Montana State Conservationist for the NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service). 🎧 Tim and Tom guide us through the conservation and land management resources available to landowners through programs offered by the NRCS and their collaboration with land trusts. They highlight the importance of voluntary, incentive-based programs that help preserve land for agriculture, wildlife habitat, and water conservation, while also supporting landowners in improving the productivity of their operation. This episode scratches the surface of the significance of long-term conservation planning and how federal, state, and local partnerships can address landscape-scale ecological issues. Listen in to part one here and stay tuned for more: https://lnkd.in/gdiaA-_V

As low-tech methods to restore healthy streams and meadows are implemented across the West, more and more people are becoming aware of these approaches. Thanks to our friends at the IWJV, there's now an online fact sheet with print versions to help low-tech newbies (and experts alike) learn the basics of these practices. Check out the resources today and get up to speed on this powerful restoration practice: https://buff.ly/3Vn9Tuf

✉️ Save the Date ✉️ Invasive Annual Grass Project Planning, Grants, and Implementation: A Webinar for Land Management Practitioners December 18 from 11-12:30 ET Join ENVU and other partners for part two of their invasive annual grass webinar series. This webinar will share real-world lessons learned from large-scale restoration projects including topics like: the importance of partnerships, developing shared goals, project site selection, acquiring funding, and communicating success to funders and beyond. Click here to access session one and to register for session two: