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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Applications are now being accepted for the 2026 Colorado Leopold Conservation Award. The $10,000 award honors ranchers, farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of ...

The relationship between being a conservationist and an outdoor recreationist is complicated, even paradoxical. How can someone claim to protect the land while actively using it for adventure and ...

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 ...

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” ...

Even as desperately needed rain continues to drench California, Central Valley farmers are still reeling from having their water supplies drastically reduced when the drought intensified last spring.

Despite record-setting rains earlier this fall, Central Valley farmers are still reeling from having their water supplies drastically reduced when the drought intensified last spring. Many farmers ...