Western Landowners Alliance remote jobs and company guide

In 2011, a diverse group of landowners, managers, conservation biologists, and private investment advisors - representing 8 million acres of deeded and leased land across nine Western states and Alberta - convened to explore a pressing question: Is it possible to sustain mixed-use rural enterprises on private lands while preventing land fragmentation, restoring land health, and conserving open space and habitat? The answer was an emphatic YES, and thus the Western Landowners Alliance was born.

Today, WLA serves as a non-partisan, landowner-led organization that advances policies and practices sustaining working lands, connected landscapes, and native species throughout the American West. The organization recognizes that private lands encompass the most productive and biologically diverse landscapes, including the majority of water resources, placing landowners in a pivotal role to shape the future of conservation.

WLA provides its members with a collective voice, peer network, and shared knowledge base for landowners striving to keep the land whole and healthy. Their work spans stewardship programs, policy advocacy, conservation economics, water management, and the Working Wild Challenge - which facilitates constructive dialogue between wildlife managers and working lands stewards to reduce conflicts. Through publications like the On Land magazine and podcast, along with documentary films, WLA amplifies the stories of stewardship being practiced across the American West.