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Balancing on political precipice
Craig Daily Press
Several residents who attended the meeting sponsored by state Rep. Al White, R-Hayden, many of whom are local farmers and ranchers, said the overabundance of wildlife — specifically elk, deer and antelope — make it difficult, if not near-impossible, to make a living.
The animals eat more crops and cause more damage than the state has money to pay for, locals said
NM takes steps to protect wildlife, habitat
Las Cruces Sun News
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—With the oil and gas boom spreading across the West, New Mexico officials are taking an unprecedented step to get federal and state land management agencies to think about wildlife before opening up public land to energy development.
Neighborly advice: How Steamboat Springs saved open space, water and the ranching way of life by planning ahead
Sky-Hi Daily News
Call it the law of unintended consequences — a place promotes “Wide Open Spaces” to attract people, but as more people buy into the idea and move to the area, those wide open spaces are lost.
Roadless Rule Takes Another U-Turn
New West
The rule protecting millions of roadless acres on public lands across the West and around the country has followed a long and winding road since the Clinton administration put it in place. Now it has taken another U-turn, and it leaves 58.5 million acres, mostly in the West, in limbo
Ruling bars road to landlocked property
TheUnion.com
Land trusts across the state are looking at a court decision in Nevada County and the precedents it could set for conservation easements elsewhere.
In a tentative ruling, a county judge has decided in favor of the Nevada County Land Trust and landowners Bill and Anna Trabucco in a civil lawsuit brought by adjacent landowner Ian Garfinkel.
Bush administration proposes major cut to endangered species protections
DOW studies mule deer aging
Delta County Independent
Early results of a mule deer aging study being conducted by the Colorado Division of Wildlife are helping provide insight into the trade-offs between hunt quality and hunting opportunity in southwest Colorado.
Many hunters would like to hunt deer every year and have the opportunity to harvest a buck four years old or older. The reality is that you can’t have it both ways.”
Farm Real Estate at Record High
KIMATV.com
National farmland prices are at an all-time high, and the Tri-Cities area is no exception.
Prices locally have doubled in the last few years, up 15 percent since last year.
Realtors say farmers switching out traditional crops for bio-fuels play a big role in the hike.
King Ranch Executive Urges Ranchers To `Plan for Profitability´
CattleNetwork.com
For some ranchers, strategic planning may seem tedious. For others, it may seem something a large corporation - not a working cattle operation - would do. But Texas A&M University - Kingsville´s King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management Executive Director Barry Dunn encourages cattle ranchers to make the time.
New website offers shocking advice on working with fractional real estate and fractional real estate ownership.
Web Wire
Fractional real estate ownership is new, and exciting and it’s very possible that the more people that jump on the bandwagon the harder it will be to get the great deals that you can now. This being said anyone interested is suggested to look into fractional real estate NOW while this is still a hot new trend.
Perfection in land of hoppers and droppers
Dallas Morning News
"I was lucky because I made my passion my living," said Stefanek, master fishing guide and river keeper for three miles of upscale private trout waters on Marabou Ranch, just outside of Steamboat Springs, and 40 miles of private trout waters on North Park Fishing Club in nearby Walden, Colo.
USDA: less red tape for rural devlopment
The Pratt Tribune
Removing paperwork roadblocks was the goal of Thomas Dorr, United States Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for Rural Development, as he addressed rural technology providers Wednesday at Pratt Community College.
Age-old industry gets new spin
The Journal
The Butlers put their own spin on the trend, and opened Shenandoah Valley Sportsmen at Butler's Farm. Now, each year, beginning in late summer, the family's 800-acre farm in Inwood is transformed into a tourism destination. Hunters flock to the fields to hunt birds and deer and enjoy an afternoon lunch on the farm
Details on criticized Plum Creek land deal emerge
GreatFallsTribute.com
As conservationists and county officials await the outcome of a federal investigation into private negotiations between the Bush administration and Plum Creek Timber Co., the Great Falls Tribune has learned new details about road access agreements between the state's largest landowner and the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.
Farmland values soar to new highs
Capital Press
The United States housing market may be in the tank, but farm real estate values continue to push higher.
Nationwide, the average value of farm real estate - including land and buildings - climbed $190 per acre in 2007 to a new record high of $2,350 per acre, according to a report released Monday, Aug. 4, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Getting Paid for How You Farm
The Progressive Farmer
High grain prices caused by burgeoning world demand forced lawmakers to make a major change in farm legislation. Using adjustments in the conservation provisions, the 2008 bill encourages farmers to produce more crops and keep fewer acres idle.
Major water ruling challenged
MercuryNews.com
Opponents of a state decision to allow 6.1 billion gallons of water a year to be pumped from three rural Nevada valleys and piped to Las Vegas went to court Friday to challenge the decision.
Representatives of the Great Basin Water Network and other groups and individuals opposed to the Southern Nevada Water Authority pumping plan said in a petition filed in district court in Ely that the pumping from Delamar, Dry Lake and Cave valleys would be excessive.
Price of Farmland Continues Climb in Nation, Mountain West
A $55 million ranch
Steamboat Pilot
One of the largest ranches in the Yampa Valley is on the market for $55 million, and the firm marketing the property is pointing out that it offers the potential for more than 70 estate building lots.
“It’s one of a kind,” Morris said. “Seventy percent of its boundary is on national forest, but it’s only 15 minutes from a great resort town. And it has four miles of trophy trout fishing.”
A Small Town's Questions on A Big Land Deal
The New West
By Matthew Frank
"We don't know these 320,000 acres. You do," said Caroline Byrd of The Nature Conservancy.
Which is why TNC and the Trust for Public Lands held a public meeting in Evaro Wednesday evening, the first of many to be held in communities...
Coalition: Overhaul roadless rule
GJSentinel.com
That controversial Colorado roadless rule is one major step closer to being official and at least one coalition of sportsmen’s groups isn’t happy about it.
A coalition of Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership claims the proposed roadless plan is being rammed through Congress by a Bush administration eager to open more land for energy leasing and development before it leaves office.
Farmers and Ranchers Fight NAIS - And Win
The John Birch Society
Small farmers, big ranchers, home farmers, animal and pet owners, and food freedom advocates have come together to legally fight implementation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The results are encouraging.
No-till saves time, money and brings better yields
North Platte Bulletin
--“In 1987 when I got started with no-till, I was 35 years old and still single. I had better things to do than till fields to kill weeds that weren’t even there yet,” said Dan Gillespie, no-till specialist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service.
In the 20 years since, Gillespie has used the no-till system on his own land. He says no-till saves money and leads to better crops. He has seen a reduction in soil erosion, an increase in soil organic matter and moisture holding capacity, and a decrease in the time he spends in the field.
Report Analyzes Booming Megapolitan West
The New West
A new report by the Brookings Institution assesses the dramatic population growth and economic and demographic shifts redefining the southern Intermountain West.
As all eyes turn to the West for the Democratic National Convention...
What is Wise When Managing Wildfire?
The New West
Mark Finney, a scientist with the Forest Service's Fire Science Lab in Missoula put it pretty clearly when talking to Matthew Frank at NewWest.Net:
"It's the paradox of fire: the more you suppress them, the worse they get," Finney...
Agritourism may be future of family farming, speaker says
The Daily Republic
It may sound strange to traditional agricultural producers, but a marketing professional predicts that the survival of many family farms may depend on a catchy new term, agritourism, in the coming years.
“I feel the ultimate paradox is that for so many of our farms, in order for us to stay in business, we have to transform the farm into something beyond production agriculture,” said Jane Eckert, founder and CEO of Eckert Marketing, a company that provides professional marketing services to farm and ranch operators engaged in agritourism.
Cooperation creates a common good
The Denver Post
How these two men — one dedicated to providing water for millions, the other to recreation for anglers — have arrived at common ground amid seeming conflict stands as one of the most encouraging developments in Colorado's ever-changing outdoor landscape.
Critical situation for ranchers
High Plains Journal
Last week, a judge issued a restraining order that halted the Critical Feed Use provision on Conservation Reserve Program acres. The program was announced May 27 to provide "much needed feed and forage while maintaining conservation efforts." The NWF sought and received the restraining order after the program had already begun in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Down on the farm takes on new meaning as agritourism produces new income for farmers
Indenews.com
The agriturismo program started in 1985. It gives tax breaks to farmers who entertain tourists and has grown steadily in recent years. I wondered whether a program that is revitalizing the agricultural economy of Europe might also be good for small farms in Columbia County.
"It has potential for Columbia County, depending on how you define it," said Steve Hadcock, of the Cornell Cooperative Extension. "Farmers are already doing it with u-pick operations, petting zoos and corn mazes. It allows people to get out onto farms. Farmers are receptive to the idea, but I don't know of many offering lodging yet."
Drought has a death grip on the Oklahoma Panhandle
High Plains Journal
Despite conditions that are even dryer than the historic Dust Bowl of the 1930s, another catastrophic dust bowl is being averted thanks to conservation practices that have been put in place for the last 70 years.
As bad as it is, I really saw a lot of great work being done by farmers to save the land," McManus said of his trip to the area. "I also saw instances where conservation practices weren't being used and saw the great damage being done above and beyond what Mother Nature has done.
Editorial: Farmers in the Lead on Global Climate Change
The Spanish Journal
During my years on a farm in southeastern Wisconsin, my parents taught their five children to live a life of careful conservation and land and water stewardship long before anyone we knew was talking about "going green."
Hunters, fishermen call for curbs on oil and gas drilling
Seattlepi.com
Two top-ranking U.S. Forest Service officials from the Clinton administration today pitched in on a campaign by hunters and fishermen to rein in oil and gas development in five Rocky Mountain states. The drilling has skyrocketed under the Bush administration, alienating many in the hook-and-bullet crowd. The group calls itself Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development.
My Day with a Rancher: Standing on the Same Turf
The New West
I got introduced to a way of life that is not too far off from my own. I appreciate and care for this land of Montana and the Rocky Mountains. I want it to be healthy and have the best management practices to keep it viable and teeming with diverse flora and fauna. And the ranchers share that perspective, but they are the ones with dirt under their nails from managing the land that I appreciate.
New Federal Policy Seen As Boon to Farmers
Istockanalyst
Though some area farmers question whether the bill, passed last month, does enough to help them, others say it ushers in far-reaching improvements -- to the industry as well as the towns that house it.
"This Farm Bill just blows my mind," said David Tuttle, the USDA's rural development director for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. "I was amazed by the amount of time spent (on it) and by the level of detail."
World forests 'threatened by food, fuel demands'
AFP
The world's forests will be gobbled up by an escalating demand for fuel and food unless steps are taken to hand the people who live in them greater rights, two reports published here Monday said. The world will need a minimum of 515 million more hectares (1.27 billion acres) by 2030, in order to grow food, bio-energy and wood products, said the reports. This is almost twice the amount of available land and equal to an area 12 times the size of Germany, the RRI said.
A natural farmer
Citizen.com
Jennifer Mayo is a lady farmer and proud of it. She began farming in 1994 at what she says was the "ripe age of 43", wishing to raise her own food. She is now self-sustaining and feeds not only herself but a growing number of customers who share Mayo's belief that they should know where their food comes from and how it is grown.
Agriculture groups seek livestock disease fix
Business Week
The Montana Stockgrowers and the Montana Farm Bureau say they are working together to find a workable plan for the state's brucellosis problem.
Enviros sue to stop drilling
Aspen Daily News
A coalition of 10 environmental and wildlife organizations filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver on Friday in an effort to stop hotly contested drilling on the Roan Plateau.
Farmers and ranchers rewarded for being good land stewards
KPTM Fox 42
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - About 204 farmers and ranchers in an 11-county area of south-central Nebraska and parts of Kansas will receive financial rewards for being good stewards of the land.
Fuel for thought
Boston.com
EUROPEAN OFFICIALS have the foresight and flexibility to admit that the world's romance with biofuels is going sour. Why can't the United States do the same?
Guest Opinion: Solutions needed now to control wildlife disease
Billings Gazette
While no conclusive evidence exists that the latest positive test for brucellosis in Paradise Valley has come from either bison or elk, that has not stopped those who would either privatize or kill off wildlife species such as bison and elk from our public landscape rather than work to find an equitable solution for all involved.
Wall Street Journal Analyzes Idaho Resort’s Collapse
New West
“The luxury-resort boom brought windfalls to once-sleepy towns throughout the Rockies, as developers planned resorts with secluded homes and memberships to golf and ski clubs. Banks such as Credit Suisse Group, which syndicated nearly $1 billion in loans to luxury developments in the West, fueled the boom.
Young farmers face tough issues
The Clarksdale Press Register
Farmers across the Mississippi Delta and America are in the midst of a unique time.
While they say they are generally receiving high prices for their products, input costs across the board –– fuel, fertilizer and seed to name a few –– have reportedly doubled and even tripled from this time last year.
As a result, farmers say they are making tough decisions every day as to how they can keep operations running most efficiently or sometimes even at all.
But does the American consumer, frustrated with paying more and more for the food they eat, truly understand some of these issues facing growers?
"Echo Effect" Slows Region's Real Estate
The New West
“If you can’t sell your house in Phoenix or LA, you can’t buy one here,” said Sandpoint-based Dave Eacret, president of Real Estate Economics.
Baucus, Plum Creek, Conservation Groups Announce Massive Land Deal
The New West
Standing just below the summit of Kalispell’s Lone Pine State Park, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., today announced the purchase of 320,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Company-owned land by two conservation groups, calling the deal, “the largest land purchase, for conservation purposes, in American history.”
Dude ranches grow in popularity
The Coloradoan
At Sundance Trail and Guest Ranch, aspiring cowboys and cowgirls can spend the day on horseback, practice their archery skills, relax in a hammock or socialize on the expansive front porch. No matter what guests choose, ranch owners say it’s the relaxing and unstructured atmosphere that people crave.
Farmland Grab
Tri-State Observer
The global food crises is contributing to new agricultural awarenesses, not the least of which is that food comes from farmland.
For Americans, production from domestic farmland is exposed to export risk. Food raised in America is not specifically earmarked for Americans,
but for a global food market.
The Chinese government is working on a proposal to support and encourage Chinese companies to buy farmland abroad.
Gray wolf sighted in New Mexico
LA Times
A possible gray wolf has been sighted on a ranch in northern New Mexico, raising the prospect that wolves may have migrated into the state from the Northern Rockies where they were reintroduced more than a decade ago.
High corn prices hit hard locally
Steamboat Pilot - Steamboat Springs,CO,USA
Most cattle ranchers don’t pump pounds of corn into the bellies of their beasts. But by all accounts, the record high price of the grain is having a negative impact on the ranching industry.
Home on the Range
FT.com
Equestrian living has become increasingly popular with wealthy buyers attracted to rural landscapes combined with luxury residences and the amenities found in private golf communities. Their reasons for choosing this lifestyle are varied, but follow two themes: horses and open space.
Hooked on North Park
The Denver Post
Lost in the publicity shuffle are the best lakes hardly anyone is paying attention to. The several trout havens of North Park.
In the Deer Lodge Valley, Ranching and Restoring a River
The New West
In 2005, the Clark Fork Coalition, a non-profit river conservation group, bought a 2,300-acre cattle ranch in the heart of the Deer Lodge Valley. It’s smack in the middle of the nation’s largest Superfund complex—the upper Clark Fork River from Butte to Missoula—where the toxic remnants from a century of mining are about to be cleaned up in the largest “river fix” ever undertaken in the West.
Increased bear activity blamed on late spring bloom
9 News.com
Some mountain communities are experiencing an increase in spring bear activity due to the late bloom of berries.
Little-known tribe taps big tax credits in Colorado
Rocky Mountain News
It was this simple: During 2005 and 2006, a little-known Indian tribe from southwestern Oregon mailed 11 one-page documents to the Jackson County clerk and recorder's office placing conservation easements on 11 small parcels of North Park scrubland.
Llano Springs Ranch Shines As Conservation Beacon Amid Changing Texas
Lone Star Outdoor News
The famed wide-open spaces of Texas are under siege, threatened by ever-expanding suburban development and fragmenting into ever-smaller pieces as people in cities buy up land in the country. The good news is conservation-minded landowners stand as bastions against these trends, places like Llano Springs Ranch south of Junction, which on May 21 received the Leopold Conservation Award for Texas from Sand County Foundation and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, part of the department’s Lone Star Land Steward Awards program.
No Forty Acres - Black Farmers Seek Justice From USDA
Black Voices
The number of black-owned farms in this country has declined from approximately 1,000,000 around the turn of the century to approximately 18,000.
That translates to a decrease from about 14 percent to around 1 percent of farms in America. And no one can blame incompetence or disinterest as the primary reasons for disappearing black-owned farms. Instead, discrimination by the United States Government is at least a large part of the reason many of these farms failed.
No crop stands alone: Brown Ranch grows diversity, soil health
The Prairie Star
Gabe Brown, a Burleigh County Soil Conservation District supervisor, spoke to the group about how managing the soil and developing an active soil conservation and grazing management program turned out to be the best of both worlds for their farm/ranch.
Pilot program expanded to help farmers understand on-farm wildlife management
Peace Country Sun
Farms can be places where wildlife can flourish, given a commitment to protect them. To assist farmers, Ducks Unlimited has expanded a pilot project, known as Natural Advantage: The On-Farm Wildlife and Biodiversity Planning Service, into a permanent program to help farmers understand how to conserve their land and the creatures that live there.
Rancher can trust his land is protected
Hutch News
More ranchers and farmers are turning to conservation easements, a voluntary agreement allowing a landowner to permanently limit development on their property while retaining private ownership. The trust usually holds the easement, which can specify that the land can continue to be ranched or farmed.
Realtor: Buyers Still Flocking to Farmland
Farm Week
Farmland values last year increased as much as 20 percent, according to Farmers National. Home sales in the state during the same time declined by a reported 31 percent.
Recent Sampling of Sales from the Plains
AgWeb - USA
Here's a sampling of recent sales from the Midwest to give you a feel for what's happening in land demand. The sales reports provide some data on the strength in land demand.
Senator Dorgan Discusses Farm Bill
kxmc.com
Dorgan said at the meeting that the new Farm Bill will give a boost to North Dakota farmers and ranchers by strengthening the farm safety net, implementing country-of-origin labeling, and restoring a permanent disaster aid program.
Sportsmen meet in Wyo. to talk preservation of hunting land
Daily Camera - CO,USA
Energy development is increasingly coming into conflict with traditional hunting and fishing grounds in the West, prompting concern from outdoor enthusiasts who want to see their longtime stomping grounds preserved for future generations.
Spotlight on Easements
The Rocky Mountain News
Some real estate appraisers, property owners and land trusts have manipulated tax credits available from Colorado's conservation easement program in ways that seem downright criminal.
So we welcome Wednesday's decision by Attorney General John Suthers asking a statewide grand jury to look into the more questionable deals. An independent probe is essential.
The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West
The New West
Courtney White’s new book Revolution on the Range (Island Press, $25.95) seeks common ground between the goals of Western ranchers and environmentalists. White reports on individuals who are working to end the “tribal warfare between denizens of the ‘Old’ West and advocates of the ‘New,’ with lassos on one side, and lattes on the other.”
The Undaunted Steward
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
Trying to figure out a balance between ranch productivity while preserving wildlife and their habitat spurred Clark to learn about the Undaunted Stewardship program.
Trout Unlimited meets with Energy Industry
KJCT8.com - Grand Junction,CO,USA
Many businesses and groups have interest in the Roan Plateau, from the gas industry to environmentalist and sportsmen. Sometimes the goals of those groups come into conflict.
UA report details the effects of climate change on agriculture
University of Arizona News
University of Arizona researchers contributed to one of the most extensive examinations of climate impacts on U.S. ecosystems, which was released recently by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Vast Tejon Ranch agreement protects vital condor habitat in California.
Wild Life Extra
The vast 270,000 acre Tejon Ranch and five environmental groups have agreed to permanent conservation of 90 percent of the giant ranch.
What’ll You Pay for Western Water?
New West
I’ve yet to hear of a single project that’s been delayed or canceled because of a water issue. We were once promised that rain would follow the plow. That turned out to be wrong. Water, it seems, actually follows the real estate developer.
‘Mustang’: Defending Wild Horse’s Place in West, and in History
New West
Some 55 million years ago, the ancestor to the modern-day horse, the “dawn horse,” appeared on what would become North America, writes Deanne Stillman. Four million years ago, Equus, the first creature we would recognize as a horse, appeared in what would be the American West.
Agreement reached for wildlife area drilling outside New Castle
Post Independent
Colorado Wildlife Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a surface-use agreement with Orion Energy Partners that will allow the company to begin drilling in Garfield Creek State Wildlife Area this summer.
Agritourism offers a taste of farm living
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
In agritourism, farm visitors experience the rural life firsthand, either through helping out with chores, picking their own produce or just taking a hayride. Community supported agriculture consumers buy shares of the farm and get choice produce for their membership.
Be aware of bear season
Cortez Journal - Cortez,CO,USA
It's officially bear season, which means Colorado Division of Wildlife officer Zach Holder is in full-scale bear awareness mode. ...
Tuesday, June 3rd 2008
By Stephanie Paige Ogburn | Journal Staff Writer
The weather has warmed, spring is finally here, and the bears are coming down from the mountains. It's officially bear season, which means Colorado Division of Wildlife officer Zach Holder is in full-scale bear awareness mode.
Betting on the Farm
The Deal.com
Driven by rising global demand for corn, wheat, soybeans and other crops, U.S. farm net income in 2007 reached record levels, and 2008 is shaping up to be just as profitable. Net farm income in 2008 is forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to hit $92.3 billion, up 4.1% from farm earnings last year and 51% above the 10-year average of $61.1 billion.
Boom in grain prices pressures idle-acre programs
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
As grain prices have soared and costs of food and feed have escalated during the past year, many animal-agriculture and food-industry groups have called for more U. S. farmland to be used to produce more food, feed and fuel crops.
CWC plan not ducky to some hunters
The Denver Post
Hunters spoke against a Colorado Wildlife Commission plan that would close the entire river east of Greeley to duck hunting four days each week and require reservations on all public property. Proponents of this notion believe shielding ducks from constant pressure will cause them to remain on the river, where nearly all public hunting occurs.
Cattle Business: Weather & Rising Prices Bring New Challenges
The Cattle Network
The ranching industry has become an even more challenging business lately due to unpredictable weather, rising costs and cattle cycles that no longer seem to follow a typical 10- to12-year trend.
Conservation Easements: The Need for Closer Scrutiny
The New West
With development pressures increasing on lands throughout the country, particularly in amenity-driven regions like the Rockies, Pacific Northwest, Northeast and elsewhere, the use of conservation easements to preclude subdivisions and other developments has become the conservation method of choice for many non-profit and governmental organizations.
Dave Richey: Apathy hurts wildlife management
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
So where does old Dave Richey come off saying that many anglers and hunters are apathetic? It's true. Look around, and you'll find people who never get involved. Few people want to fight the good fight for proper fish and game management. A serious problem with such problems is they all take time to solve.
Drilling delay near Rifle breeds conflict
Summit Daily News
A proposed new rule by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission prohibiting drilling for 90 days in critical wildlife habitat could drive natural gas companies out of the area, which would mean a loss of jobs and a weaker economy, according to industry representatives.
Drilling for Defeat?
The New York Times
Nearly two decades ago, Republicans won the West by linking Democrats to environmentalists, who supposedly cared more for the spotted owl and other favored species than they did for the jobs of loggers or miners. But now, as a boom in natural-gas drilling reshapes the region, Western Democrats have found success recasting environmentalism as a defense of threatened water supplies, fishing spots and hunting grounds.
Drilling for Natural Gas in Wyoming Raises Debate
The Online News Hour
NewsHour Correspondent: Gary Amerine makes his living as an outfitter in the rugged mountains of Wyoming. He's raised his children riding horses, and he guides hunters and fishermen into the Wyoming Range, the snowcapped peaks south of Grand Teton National Park that provide the backdrop to his ranch.
Dubois, Wyoming named one of the 20 Best Places to Live in the ...
Adventure Travel Media Source
Based on factors from outdoor adventures to towns where history comes alive, they’ve compiled a list of the top spots in the nation to experience authentic Western culture today. The list pays tribute to a few remaining outposts where true Western spirit still thrives as residents and communities go about their everyday affairs.
Farm Bill Proposal Contains Mixed Results for Waterfowl Needs
Ducks Unlimited
With a Farm Bill being readied for a final floor vote in the House and Senate, agricultural conservation initiatives are being treated differently than they were in earlier versions of this year’s bill and in previous Farm Bills.
Farm Bill's forest fix falls short
Baker City Herald - Baker City,OR,USA
The 2008 Farm Bill includes new programs and funding for private forests, but woodland owners and forest managers in Baker County and across the state deem the dollars a "drip in the bucket" considering the scope of the nation's forest health crisis.
Farm clans often inherit a fight
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
In North Carolina's hotbeds of suburban growth, heirs of large tracts of land often face tough choices -- keeping their family inheritance intact or selling to developers.
Sometimes, the decisions can tear families apart.
Farmers' Market A 'Green' Business
Fed report says climate change risks crops, water
Associated Press
Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, according to a federal report released Tuesday.
Fishing in Grand County: So much water, so little time
Sky-Hi Daily News
Anglers visiting Grand County are confronted with an enviable dilemma: so much water, so little time. How much water? About 1,000 miles of streams and rivers, 1,000 acres of high mountain lakes and a whopping 11,000 acres of reservoirs, according to the Grand County Tourism Board Web site.
Get ready to hike
WyomingNews.com
City-owned land could join a planned Colorado trails system within the next five years that would stretch more than 40 miles over tens of thousands of acres of land.
Good times for rural banks
Minneapolis Star Tribune
While farmers raise corn and wheat, many small-town bankers are growing profits.
Government Land Acquisition on the Sly
The National Center for Public Policy Research - Washington,DC,USA
Dana, as many of you know, is the author of the absolutely excellent new paper on conservation easements, "Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, ...
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