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Boosting the Bottom Line
Field Notes Boosting the Bottom Line By Montana MacConnell, Idaho Cattle Association Montana works as the Member Programs & Services Manager for the Idaho Cattle Association. A partnership between the Intermountain West Joint Venture, Idaho Cattle Association, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service – Idaho is helping to connect ranchers to Farm Bill programs…
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IWJV’s Conservation Approaches
Our Vision: An Intermountain West where people, birds, and other wildlife thrive. The IWJV philosophy can simply be described as a deep recognition that people are fundamental to the story of conservation in the West. People dedicated to working lands, both public and private, compose a huge part of our organizational landscape and are core to…
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Protected: How Changing Landscapes Drive Mule Deer Declines—And What We Can Do About It
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Helping Woodlands & Fighting Fire with the Dawson Project
The Dawson Project tests pinyon-juniper woodland silvicultural treatments in southwest Colorado In Southwest Colorado, fuels specialists and researchers have come together to experimentally evaluate different silvicultural treatments for enhancing pinyon-juniper ecosystem health and reducing fire risk. This interdisciplinary team has implemented replicated silvicultural treatments that vary in spatial complexity and amount of thinning in pinyon-juniper…
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Here are the Recipients of the IWJV 2024 Conservation Partner Awards
Each year, the Intermountain West Joint Venture recognizes individuals and organizations who are doing excellent habitat conservation work around the region. The following awards were presented at the IWJV fall 2025 management board meeting. For a list of past award winners, click here. Ian Barrett and the blm co southwest district fire and Aviation management…
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The Sagebrush Tells the Story
Field Notes The Sagebrush Tells the Story By Sarah Leal, Susanville Rangeland Conservationist Sarah Leal is a Rangeland Conservationist in Susanville, California and a member of the IWJV’s Wetlands Capacity Team. She assists the Natural Resources Conservation Service in establishing conservation plans on farms, ranches, and other private lands to enhance soil, water, plants, wildlife…
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Without Boundaries: A Partnership of Fire, Water, and Forest Health
Explore this feature story about the Two Watersheds – Three Rivers – Two States Cohesive Strategy Partnership (2-3-2 Partnership), a collaborative effort between many groups invested in the ecological and social health of a five-million-acre landscape. Story and photos by Hannah Nikonow, IWJV Communications and Marketing Coordinator There’s a place that spans three rivers and…
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Defend YOUR Core: An Invasive Annual Grasses Story
Imagine a landscape that is completely dominated by cheatgrass. Instead of native grasses, wildflowers, sagebrush, and the call of songbirds, picture a monoculture of dried non-native grasses, mostly devoid of life and ready to ignite from the smallest spark. If we do not act, this could be the future of much of our western rangelands.…
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Cheating Wyoming’s Wildlife and People? Not if Nancy Has a Say
Understanding and applying two herbicides to control invasive annual grasses in Wyoming’s geography takes careful consideration and partnership. Story and photos by Hannah Nikonow, IWJV Communications and Marketing Coordinator Nancy Webb sees what Wyoming stands to lose if she and others don’t take action now. As the Invasive Annual Grass Coordinator for the BLM’s Wind…
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Linking Irrigation and Groundwater in the White River Basin
Q&A With hydrologist Dr. Ryan Bailey Irrigators in northwestern Colorado’s White River Basin had a question: what, exactly, was happening to the water that seeped past the grass growing in their hay meadows and back into the watershed? For ages, they’d seen evidence of groundwater recharge, like springs staying wet long after the land dried…
