The Etchart Family worked with the NRCS, TNC, and the CO Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust to place much of the ranch in a conservation easement protecting this prime working land from development and preserving habitat for elk, deer, and sage grouse.

Learn about the “Green Glacier,” the slow-moving expansion of conifer trees across western rangelands, in this Ask an Expert with NRCS’s Jeremy Maestas.

New study shows that sage grouse population growth rates are 12% higher following long-term conifer removal.

New conservation easement in Washington state preserves more than 2,000 acres of native sagebrush range in critical sage grouse habitat, adding to a 6,800-acre easement the neighboring ranch placed under a conservation easement in 2019.

The Burke Family’s long partnership with NRCS has led to better forage for livestock and wildlife and, in 2017, their ranch was protected in perpetuity through a NRCS-supported conservation easement.

Contractor Opportunity: Video project near Adel, Oregon. Download RFP and submit bid by May 7, 2021.

Dig into the Framework for Conservation Action in the Sagebrush Biome.

E&E News reports on the Framework for Conservation Action in the Sagebrush Biome. Reprinted with permission.