Bee Ranching

Bee Ranching

Paying landowners to create and connect pollinator habitat

Bees are declining, and that’s bad news for ag producers.

The Feedgrounds Conundrum

The Feedgrounds Conundrum

Brucellosis spreads as Wyoming tries to protect livestock

As he does every single morning from November into April, Bondurant, Wyoming, rancher Kevin Campbell leads his two draft horses, Ed and Smoke, out of their pen and harnesses them to the hay wagon to feed elk.

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

New Marketplace Will Reward Wyoming Ranchers for Conserving Sage Grouse Habitat

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

The Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming, at the headwaters of the Colorado River, is laced with clear running streams and fosters abundant habitat and some of the most robust greater sage grouse, mule deer, and pronghorn populations in the world.

Collaboration in Action

Collaboration in Action

Wilderness and Livestock Advocates Advise US Forest Service on New Planning Rule

When Jim Magagna, Executive Vice President of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, arrived at the first national advisory committee meeting for forest planning, he looked around

Cattle as ecosystem engineers

Cattle as ecosystem engineers

Climate, soils, topography, grazing, and fire have shaped the composition and structure of vegetation on rangelands in the American West. Collectively, the many possible combinations of these different factors should lead to diverse plant communities and associated diverse wildlife species.

Conservation grazing: Ranchers lead the way

Conservation grazing: Ranchers lead the way

On the Howell Ranch and adjacent properties in western Colorado, cattle are used to create prime elk hunting opportunities. Managers carefully consider elk movements when they design the annual grazing plan for the ranch.