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Leopold Conservation Award Program
Rick and Marlis Doud’s ranch, near Midland, is comprised of 6,000 deeded acres and 2,500 leased acres on which they run nearly 400 cow-calf pairs.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Doud-Ranch/3396/
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Leopold Conservation Award Program
Guptill Ranch is a 7,000-acre cattle operation that Pat and Mary Lou Guptill have owned and managed for the past 25 years. With their five children, they are caretakers of this special landscape in western South Dakota. The area features grasslands with rolling hills and a wooded creek running through the ranch.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Guptill-Ranch/3397/
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Leopold Conservation Award Program
The Jorgensens have made a living from farming and ranching for more than 100 years. Humbly beginning as a small family farm, Jorgensen Land and Cattle Partnership has grown to include livestock, a large variety of crops and a hunting business.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Jorgensen-Land-and-Cattle-Partnership/3398/
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Leopold Conservation Award Program
Jim and Karen Kopriva purchased their first land in Clark County in 1991, but credit Karen’s parents, Harold and Mary Hurlbert, with helping them establish their farm. Karen’s family has been in Clark County since 1880 and her parents have helped both their daughters’ families get started in agriculture. Over one third of the operation’s land base is land that has been in Karen’s family for three generations.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Kopriva-Angus/3399/
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Leopold Conservation Award Program
At the end of the 1940s, Clarence Mortenson began to wonder how all of the water originating on his ranch could be kept there for use over an extended period of time. This idea sparked his effort to restore the ranch to its natural state. Clarence’s vision has been embraced by his sons, Todd, Jeff, and Curt, who currently operate Mortenson Ranch.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Mortenson-Ranch/3400/
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Leopold Conservation Award Program
Holistic resources management focused on long-term sustainability is a way of life at Rock Hills Ranch. Lyle and Garnet Perman, along with their son Luke and his wife Naomi, raise crops and Angus cattle on the 7,500-acre ranch near Lowry.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Rock-Hills-Ranch/3401/
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Leopold Conservation Award Program
Gary and Sue Price’s 1,900 acre 77 Ranch in Navarro County is designed and run to be both economically and environmentally sustainable. The Prices do not make a business decision without first considering its environmental impact.
https://www.landcan.org/success/77-Ranch/3402/
The Ladder Ranch is a working sheep, cattle and hay ranch headquartered along the Colorado-Wyoming border, northwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado and east of Savery, Wyoming. The operation has evolved from a survival mode pioneer enterprise to a significant production and conservation ranch.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Ladder-Ranch--From-Pioneer-Enterprise-to-Conservation-Ranch/3330/
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Richard L. Knight
Organizing around the Laramie Foothills Group, with city and county residents passing sales taxes to help conserve open spaces, a remarkable coalition of rural and urban constituencies merged to ensure that land beyond city limits stayed open and productive
https://www.landcan.org/success/The-Laramie-Foothills-Group--Conservation-at-the-Scale-of-a-Watershed/3329/
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Ashley Pratt
Sparling Ranch Conservation Bank creates a win-win for ranchers, developers, wildlife
https://www.landcan.org/success/Where-Cattle-Graze-and-Salamanders-Roam/3327/
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Dan Chapman
In Georgia, the effort to help a rare salamander is headed by hardworking school age kids
https://www.landcan.org/success/The-Homely-Hellbender-and-the-Diligent-School-Kids/3326/
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Dan Chapman
Scott Rhodes plants longleaf pine trees prized by federally endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers. He also burns his woodlands to create ideal habitat for numerous species including, one day perhaps, at-risk gopher tortoises.
https://www.landcan.org/success/South-Carolina-Forester-Big-on-Conservation/3325/
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Jennifer Strickland
Coffee with conservationist wins rancher’s struggle
https://www.landcan.org/success/Taming-Battle-Creek/3324/
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Issac Burke
Fly fishing guide Gary Lang wades in on conservation and his passion for angling
https://www.landcan.org/success/Walking-the-River/3323/
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Ashley Spratt
How a Southern California developer helped save the San Fernando Valley spineflower
https://www.landcan.org/success/A-Promising-Future-For-a-California-Plant-Once-Believed-Extinct/3322/
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Jessica Collier
Preserving Hunting Traditions in South Carolina
https://www.landcan.org/success/Where-Quail-is-King/3321/
Through the Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI), private landowners across Eastern Oregon are volunteering to perform proactive conservation treatments on their rangeland to promote healthy habitat for sage grouse and other wildlife.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Restoring-Sagebrush-Country-With-Modern-Wildfire/3320/
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The Sage Grouse Initiative
A few SGI field conservationist volunteer to help the Wyoming Game and Fish build “beaver dam analogues” for a pilot project on private land
https://www.landcan.org/success/Local-Partners-Mimic-Beavers-to-Restore-Streams-In-Wyoming/3319/
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NRCS Montana
Montana rancher returns cropland to permanent grasses and forbs to provide forage for livestock and sage grouse
https://www.landcan.org/success/Conservation-Road-Trip--Taking-NoTill-To-The-Next-Level/3318/
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Brianna Randall
The Idaho Sage Grouse Action Team is a prime example of how neighbors are working together to achieve unprecedented conservation success for people and wildlife across the range.
https://www.landcan.org/success/Idaho-Models-3-Cs--Collaboration-Cooperation-Conservation/3317/