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PacifiCorp Continues to Lead in Supporting Sagebrush Conservation
Enacting durable conservation takes all types of partners. In few other places is this more prominent than the American West’s sagebrush country. The Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) is proud to work closely with PacifiCorp, an electric utility company based in the western United States, and has done so for over 25 years. PacifiCorp does…
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Leaving a Legacy
This article is a partnership production of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program—Mountain-Prairie Region and Intermountain West Joint Venture. Click here to read all four stories in this series. Spring thaw has arrived in the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorado. And, with it, comes thousands of waterbirds, migrating from their…
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Leaving a Legacy of Land
By Ed Contreras, IWJV’s Working Wetlands Conservation Delivery Coordinator Protecting private lands that provide significant natural resource or cultural values is often a capstone objective for landowners, managers, and conservationists. It’s a tangible way to demonstrate commitment to conservation and leave a legacy of land which has been enhanced, restored, or managed in some special way. Conservation…
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Channeled Scablands and Columbia Basin (WA)
In recent years, the Washington State Conservation Partnership has placed emphasis on using the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) and Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) under the Farm Bill to conserve and restore key wetland habitats in the Channeled Scablands and Columbia Basin. Three standard grants involving 17 partners have been approved to protect and restore over 3,000 acres…
