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Most landowners have a strong interest in managing their land to support these diverse values, yet face many challenges in doing so. It takes more than just desire and vision to keep land healthy, productive and intact; it takes knowledge and science, money, skilled labor, community resources and supportive public policies.
Western Landowners Alliance recognizes that economic vitality and conservation go hand-in-hand. We envision a future in which private and leased public lands in the West are resilient to stressors, healthy and biologically diverse, and provide for prosperous rural business and critical ecological services. We provide a collective voice, a peer network and a shared knowledge base for land stewards striving to keep the land whole and healthy.
Western Landowners Alliance advances policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species.
Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is a landowner-led organization founded to ensure the wellbeing of working lands in the American West and the people and wildlife that depend on them. Our membership spans a diversity of land interests, political perspectives and all walks of life. They include multi-generational land stewards and newer arrivals. Our common ground is a respect for land as a living community and our dedication to caring for it.
Landowners have a critical role to play when it comes to conservation. Up to 80% of wildlife species depend on private land for survival. More than 75% of remaining wetlands and 80% of remaining grasslands in the US are on private land. Landowners’ oversight of water resources, mineral rights, grazing allotments and deeded lands enables them to make immediate impacts on the ground. Landowners can be influential with policy makers and bring nuanced and pragmatic insights to the table that can help reveal new paths forward. Given the deep political, economic and environmental challenges we face today, it is more important than ever for landowners to take a leadership role in improving public dialogue, public policy and on-the-ground stewardship.
Western Landowners Alliance works to generate the public policies, economic opportunities, knowledge and resources landowners need to keep working lands healthy and intact. We are collaborative and solutions-oriented, partnering with a wide variety of agricultural and conservation organizations, state and federal agencies, conservation districts and universities. We are unique and effective because we are directed and informed by landowners and managers who share a strong land ethic and possess pragmatism and insights derived from years of first-hand experience on the ground.
Organization name
Western Landowners Alliance
other names
WLA, The Alliance
2011
Tax id (EIN)
46-1346488
Category
Environment, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition, Recreation & Sports
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
7555 W. Amherst Ave Unit 27798CO, US
WY, US
NM, US
MT, US
US