A new petition published in the journal Nature today from 240 leading conservationists, including UC Santa Cruz faculty, argues that conservation’s impact on the world is being hindered by the field’s ...

As we mark the 75th anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” and approach the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, we find ourselves at a ...

Early in his career, while working for the U.S. Forest Service in the 1920s, Leopold argued for protecting roadless public wildlands – what would come to be designated as wilderness four decades later ...

Tom Cotter has been honored with Minnesota’s Leopold Conservation Award for his community-focused soil health practices.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The darker corners of YouTube document state-sanctioned conservation efforts with video compilations of feral pig hunting. Legal, lethal control of ...

WANAMINGO, Minn. — Up that hill and east of that barn … there’s two projects that were done for my dad in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fred Halvorson says. Halvorson, a semi-retired ...

There was a time during the golden age of the conservation movement when being "anti-conservation" or "anti-environmentalist" was akin to speaking up for reinstatement of the Jim Crow laws. This ...

This year marks the Cedar River Watershed's 100th anniversary as Seattle's primary source of drinking water. The Cedar River Watershed Education Center, to open this Saturday, will honor this vital ...

Despite October’s record-setting rains, Central Valley farmers are still reeling from having their water supplies drastically reduced when the drought intensified last spring. Many farmers have been ...

The evolving field called compassionate conservation (see also), in which the guiding principle "First do no harm" stresses the importance of individual nonhuman animals (animals), is gaining ...

The Kevin Wiltse family has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Kansas Leopold Conservation Award®. The award honors ...

For his family, the citizens of Lee County and the wounded soldiers he evacuated during the Vietnam War, Fred Bartleson Jr. was the right person at the right time. “A man of unquestionable integrity” ...