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The Role of Working Lands in Providing Public Conservation Benefits

Privately owned farms, ranches, and forests, collectively known as working lands, are the cornerstones on which our nation was built.

As public land battles simmer, a new private model emerges to pay ranchers to conserve wildlife.

It is time to return to the BLM motto—“land of many uses”—not land of no uses.

Insurance is not only useful for protecting property; it can also help protect vulnerable environmental assets.

Using the political process to force others to further your values at their expense isn’t virtue.

A private-property approach to conservation is superior to conservation on government land.

If the government takes the National Butterfly Center for the border wall, it will have to pay just compensation to the private owner.

WATCH: Trout Unlimited helps agricultural producers leave water instream to enhance fish habitat.

WATCH: How profits earned from bee pollination markets help prevent bee populations from declining as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder.

American Prairie Reserve has created a public-private partnership in eastern Montana to restore 3.5 million acres of native flora and fauna.