FWP is seeking comment on seven proposed Habitat Conservation Leases (HCLs) in southeast Montana. HCLs are incentive-based, voluntary agreements offered by FWP to help conserve priority wildlife habitats on private lands while also supporting working agricultural lands and public hunting and recreation opportunity. Private landowners can enroll their land into a 30- or 40-year conservation lease in return for a one-time, per-acre lease payment. Funding for the program is generally derived from state hunting license fees and federal Pittman Robertson Wildlife Restoration funds. FWP staff will h ..read more

An updated map was published today on Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) website to continue informing the public, recreationists, and livestock producers on where collared wolves have been in the past month. CPW will update this map with new information monthly to reflect data for the past 30 days or so, produced on the fourth Wednesday of every month. Collared gray wolf activity recorded by Colorado Parks and Wildlife from March 26 to April 23, 2024. A larger map is linked below and available at cpw.state.co.us. Colorado Parks and Wildlife – Collared Gray Wolf Activity Map – April 2024 CP ..read more

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host free public tours of the Winnemucca Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral located in Paradise Valley, Nevada, on Thursday May 16 and Friday, May 17, 2024. Attendees will have the opportunity to view wild horses gathered from overpopulated herds in Nevada, California, and the recently gathered animals from the East Pershing Complex. The privately owned and operated corral is located outside of Winnemucca, Nevada, in Paradise Valley, which is approximately a 30-minute drive north of Winnemucca. There will be two days of tours with two public tours of ..read more

The Montana Stockgrowers Association (MSGA) has selected Colton Coffee and Rocky Forseth to represent Montana at the 2024 Young Cattlemen’s Conference (YCC). Scheduled for May 30 through June 6, YCC is an opportunity for cattlemen and cattlewomen to visit segments of the beef industry across the nation with young professionals from other states. Colton Coffee, Miles City Colton Coffee, of Miles City, works as an attorney and manages his family’s cow-calf and yearling ranch programs, water rights, legal issues, and transactions. Colton has been active with MSGA and currently serves as chairman ..read more

Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks is seeking public input on a potential project that would place nearly 33,000 acres of private timberland in northwest Montana under a conservation easement and protect working lands, public recreation access, and wildlife habitat. FWP has published a draft environmental assessment that outlines the proposed first phase of the project named the Montana Great Outdoors Conservation Easement. This is the first of a potential two-phased project totaling 85,792 acres of private timberland and fish and wildlife habitat owned by Green Diamond Resource Company. The ..read more

Recently, the R-CALF USA Board of Directors seated three new board members elected from Regions V (Texas), VI (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma), and IX (Alabama, Florida, and Georgia). Region directors are elected by majority vote from cattle-owning members in their region’s respective states. The directors serve three-year terms, and no director may serve more than two consecutive terms. The board also reelected Region III Director Brett Kenzy as President of the Board and Region VII Director Eric Nelson as Vice President of the Board. The president and vice president serve two-year terms. Out ..read more

Once again Montana’s Livestock Loss Board is accepting loss prevention grant applications. Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on May 31st. Board members will be meeting sometime during the last week of June to award the grants. For the first time in many years the board has adequate funding for larger projects. Because of this we encourage people thinking about starting a carcass removal project to do so this year. If it is for a carcass removal site, please include state or county required permits.   Fill out every section of the grant form. It a section doesn’t apply to your specific req ..read more

The 2024 Nebraska Range Short Course is teaming up with the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition (NGLC) Grazing School on June 25 – 27, 2024 at the Spring Lake Ranch south of Gordon, Nebraska, to host an event that will give individuals an opportunity to increase their skills with grazing, rangeland management, and livestock production. The three-day, in-person course will be taught through classroom and field sessions focused on the underlying principles of grazing and rangeland management. “The goal of this event is to provide up-to-date, applicable information and training for the efficient and ..read more

Five-year-old Harvey Robinett is a cowboy through and through. He ranches on the South Fork of the Powder River in central Wyoming. He loves to ride his horse and chase cows every chance he gets. He wants to continue being a rancher when he grows up. Photo courtesy of Theresa Robinett. The post Agri-Kid of the Week – Harvey Robinett first appeared on Western Ag Reporter ..read more

There are many negative attributes of social media, but there are also posts that are truly enlightening. One such post recently led me to check out Warren Johnson’s Facebook page, which led to discovering his blog. I do not personally know Warren, but he is a larger-than-life character whom everyone connected with horses, rodeos, and outfitting knows about. The primary thing I knew about Warren prior to discovering his posts and blogs was that he upstaged us back in May of 2013. A Today Show film crew visited our ranch to do a segment on the Yellowstone Park area that was supposed to air on M ..read more