Are Southern Forests Running Out of Time?
The Forest Service and Gary Myers are Worried About the Future of the World’s Most Diverse Temperate Forests

Private Lands in the #11 State for Biodiversity and Extinctions
The state that spawned the Sagebrush Rebellion is quietly fomenting a new revolution: collaboration in the name of conserving wildlife and water.

Might Green Energy Replace Development as #1 Threat to Habitat?
Connectivity, argues Ed Hastey, is the answer to a lot of our conservation problems on both public and private lands - but do energy companies realize that?

Eliminating the “White Space” from Conservation Planning
A decades-long state director for the Bureau of Land Management makes a case for private lands as critical conservation corridors.

Southern Ecosystems and Symbiotic Relationships
Our new Mississippi State Conservation Center highlights the Magnolia state’s wildlife, forests, and agriculture.

Plan for Succession, not Just Bequeathing, of Your Private Land
Creating a succession plan is not the same as estate planning; think of it as designing your family legacy.

Big News from Texas for Landowners and Little Birds
Private Landowner demand for services from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department grows while federal support faces cutbacks

A Land Trust of Landowners for Landowners
The Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust: making best use of a tax credit and lottery funds.

Challenges at The Connecticut Forest and Park Association
Connecticut's Oldest Land Trust Faces America’s Latest Problems: Budget Woes and Property Turnover

Malpai Borderlands Group, Ranches of SE Arizona Face a New Threat
This post is a continuation from last week’s, about the Malpai Borderlands Group, or MBG, a group of ranchers working to protect their land and ranching heritage.

Malpai Borderlands Group - an Early Inspiration for PLN
Ranchers in southeast Arizona at the Mexican Border have learned - sometimes the hard way - that they are “attached to the rest of the world.”

People and Animals Put the Work, and Happiness, into Working Land
A new program in Wyoming links kids to ranching. This is the kind of innovative thinking that could spread like wildfire.

Big Sky and Tax Deductions: Motivators that Drive the Private Landowner Network
Wide open range land, narrow profit margins, big sky, high taxes, tall southern pines, growing debt: factors driving the Private Landowner Network or PLN.

3 reasons to Shift From a Public to Private Land Conservation Investment Portfolio
Take a look at my latest presentation on why the conservation community, both public and private, needs to consider a reorientation of their land conservation focus from public land acquisition to private land conservation initiatives.

Western Ranching Coalition: Ranchbook
This the transcript of the speech I gave at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Public Lands Council meeting on February 26, 2009

People, particularly forestry folks
I have been trying to ascertain for months whether the conservation easement deductions provided in the 2008 Farmbill apply to forest landowners.

PRIVATE LANDS IN THE WEST
A review of the current ranch-land conservation-scape

Conservation Tax Incentive Extension

Federal Conservation Programs at work
I just read that the USDA's nationwide Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) topped the 1 million acre mark last week with the addition of a 60 acre tract in Minnesota.

Private Conservation boasts record progress
More than 11,000 acres were protected in Massachusetts in 2007 through conserrvation  easements

Tax Benefits Result in More Acres Conserved
Now that the 2006 Pension Bill provisions are due to expire in just over a month it is becoming more and more imperative to persuade the senate and house

Maine State Conservation Center
RFF just posted its first state conservation website

New Senate tax incentives for land owners

Why I've been running
I have worked in conservation for over 35 years, and my career path, which might be more appropriately dubbed the “careening” path of a total maverick

Running Into The Wind Post #1
My name is Amos S. Eno and I am President of the Resources First Foundation (hereafter RFF), which I established in 2000.