A new report examines the scope of PFAS challenges in agriculture and identifies steps that land conservation agencies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture could take to reduce the impacts of these ...
In the spring of 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officially offered Gretchen Troutman, 49, a job as a natural resource specialist. Elated, she packed up her life in Pennsylvania and ...
Working Lands Trust (WLT) is announced the successful completion of this agricultural easement closing, permanently ...
Large, open ranches are often the last wide-open spaces left between growing towns and expanding highway networks. Across much of the American West and Great Plains, these properties still support ...
WASHINGTON – Conservation groups are criticizing a federal proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule on federal lands, but a member of North Dakota’s congressional delegation says ...
I readily admit that when I first started working in conservation, it wasn’t out of any particular passion for protecting agricultural lands. I wanted to conserve wildlife habitat — the rugged, ...
Applications are now being accepted for the 2026 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award®. The $10,000 award honors farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of ...