Wyoming Leopold Conservation Award Recipient Honored

          CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Padlock Ranch, recipient of this year’s Leopold Conservation Award in Wyoming, was honored by Governor Matt Mead during a ceremony at the state capitol. Governor Mead signed a proclamation declaring July 9, 2013 as Wyoming Environmental Stewardship Day which marks the date of the Environmental Stewardship Tour hosted by the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (WSGA)...

2013 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award Recipient Named

  Sand County Foundation, the Nebraska Cattlemen and Cargill are proud to announce The Beel Ranch as the recipient of the 2013 Leopold Conservation Award, which honors Nebraska landowner achievement in voluntary stewardship and management of natural resources. Celebrating 75 years on their nearly 22,000-acre cattle operation near Johnstown, brothers Frank, Henry and Adam, along with their wives Jennifer, Mary and Jenny own...

Jim & Val Hebbe – 2012 Leopold Conservation Award – Wisconsin (video)

Jim and Valerie Hebbe, along with their daughter, Ashley, operate a cash grain farm in Green Lake County. In his nearly 30 years of experience in melding conservation and agriculture, Jim is the essence of adaptive management. Jim began farming in 1983 by renting some land from his father. He planted field corn, using conventional tillage, resulting in poor yields. Following a couple of attempts, Jim realized that he needed...

Buddy & Ellen Temple to be honored by Texas Conservation Alliance

Buddy and Ellen Temple, recipients of the 2011 Leopold Conservation Award in Texas, will be honored during the Texas Conservation Alliance‘s Annual Meeting “for protecting the Neches River and for their life-long dedication to conservation.” “Buddy and Ellen have done more for East Texas than anyone knows,” said Richard Donovan, a director of Texas Conservation Alliance. “Their efforts to...

Koopmann family featured in Working Ranch magazine

San Francisco Bay-area rancher Tim Koopmann and his family, recipients of the 2011 Leopold Conservation Award in California, are featured in a recent issue of Working Ranch magazine. The article focuses on agricultural families’ succession planning, an issue that hits close to home for the Koopmanns. Download the...

Tour of Koopmann ranch demonstrates importance of private lands conservation

A tour of Tim and Melinda Koopmann’s San Francisco Bay Area ranch on April 20 demonstrated how critical farming families are to the health of California’s natural resources. The tour, which was sponsored by the California Farm Bureau Federation, Sand County Foundation, Sustainable Conservation and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), covered several of the Koopmanns’ conservation practices, including soil,...