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The Role of Working Lands in Providing Public Conservation Benefits

Too often, government policies that aim to conserve environmental resources counterproductively discourage conservation on working lands. It is essential that landowners maintain authority over their working lands so that conservation efforts can prosper.

Published on: October 6, 2017

Contracting for Conservation

Conservation in the American West is often portrayed as zero sumโ€”one groupโ€™s gain is anotherโ€™s loss. And in many cases, it is. In 2001, when President Bill Clinton designated the 378,000-acre Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in eastern Montana, placing much of it off limits to grazing and other forms of use, he […]

Published on: September 14, 2017