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What Brings Us Together: Five Lessons from the Range
Field Notes What Brings Us Together: Five Lessons from the Range By Brenda Richards, Idaho Rangeland Conservation Partnership Coordinator Conserving and restoring healthy rangelands is a community-scale effort that depends on people in many roles, from restoration crews and wildland firefighters to land managers, permit specialists, agency staff, and landowners. One of the most vital—and…
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Implementation Plan
Our Guide in Conservation 2025 Implementation Plan Over the past decade, the Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) has significantly evolved in its approach to bird habitat conservation. While its core mission remains the conservation of bird habitats—a focus it has maintained since its founding in 1994—the IWJV has expanded its strategies to better support its…
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IWJV Award Recipients
We are proud to recognize conservation leaders in the Intermountain West. The IWJV selects deserving individuals and partnership groups for our Conservation Leadership Awards on an annual basis. Learn about all the awardees we have recognized below. Past Lifetime Achievement Award Winners (Formerly known as the John E. Nagel award) Past Conservation Partner Award Winners
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Water 4 Annual Report
The Water 4 program works with agricultural producers, federal and state land managers, private corporations, and non-governmental organizations to achieve wetlands conservation that is relevant to people. In 2024, the IWJV’s Water 4 program invested heavily in science, capacity, and communications to support wetlands conservation work across the region.
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Five Interesting Ways to Use Virtual Fences
By Janyne Little Managing cattle across vast rangelands has long been a complex challenge for ranchers and land managers. Conventional barbed wire fencing methods, while effective, can be costly, labor-intensive, and inflexible to operational and environmental changes. Virtual fencing technology has the potential to provide a more precise, adaptable, and cost-effective tool for livestock management.…
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Video: Sustaining Wetlands & Watersheds with Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay
Riparian corridors are lifelines for the wildlife and communities of the Intermountain West. These corridors are home to many of the region’s wetlands and are sustained by seasonal water cycles. This means that the wildlife that depends on wetlands, from migratory waterbirds to big game animals, can often be found using riparian areas. Much of…
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Low-Tech Methods to Promote Healthy Streams and Meadows: A Factsheet
Learn about simple, low-tech methods that help promote healthy streams and meadows by slowing runoff, spreading water, and boosting productivity. Learn About Low-Tech Restoration Practices As low-tech methods to restore healthy streams and meadows are implemented across the West, more and more people are becoming aware of these approaches. We created a factsheet in online…
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Annual Operational Plan
Annual operational plan The Intermountain West Joint Venture’s Annual Operational Plan establishes the priorities, activities, and budget for the current federal fiscal year. This operational plan focuses our team on efforts that help us realize the highest possible return on investment as we support habitat conservation through partnerships across 486 million acres of the West.
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Field Notes
In this series of first-person essays, we are sharing stories from wildly different “fields” traveled by the conservation community. Scroll to view this storymap, or see it full size here. Field Notes is a compilation of first-person essays composed across many years by the Intermountain West Joint Venture partners, board members, and staff. Our professional…
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The IWJV Celebrates the Power of Partnerships
The IWJV’s organizational philosophy can simply be described as a deep recognition that people are fundamental to the story of conservation in the West. As a partnership-fueled entity, metrics of success cannot always be shown qualitatively, but the impacts of the work are still incredibly meaningful. We took that concept to heart by soliciting narrations…
