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Cattle Ranching on North America’s Grasslands

Bird Conservancy explores bird conservation as it relates to working lands, which are facing challenges like never before. Interviews with landowners explore family heritage, the...

The Land of my Grandmothers

Emily Chavez recently began a new chapter in her life in a familiar setting. Here in the San Luis Valley, the land of her ancestors,...

Private Lands, Public Birds

For over ten years, private landowners have been granting permission for Bird Conservancy to conduct bird surveys on their land. These partners in conservation enable...

A Community’s Passion for Mountain Plovers, Conservation and Agriculture

Every year, the community of Karval in eastern Colorado comes together to celebrate the return of Mountain Plover to their fields, inviting birders from around...

Restoring Habitats, One Ranch at a Time

Through a grant from Great Outdoors Colorado, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is partnering with private landowners in Morgan County, Colorado to eliminate cheatgrass—an extremely...

The Hidden Costs of Shutdowns

The effects of the Federal Government shutdowns are far-reaching and have a lasting impact on bird conservation, regional economies, our nation’s farmers and producers, and...

Breaking New Ground for Burrowing Owls

As our population grows, so does the footprint for housing, commercial businesses, and food production. Habitat loss is having a big impact on grassland and...

Experience as Inspiration

Dana Ripper, Director of Missouri River Bird Observatory, shares how earlier career experiences at Bird Conservancy of the Rockies (then Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory) are...

Off the Beaten Track

Every year in late spring and summer, our field season crew traipses across mountains, prairies and deserts to survey birds under the Integrated Monitoring in...

Ranch Tour in Northern Mexico

The grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert provide important overwintering habitat for over 90% of the migratory grassland species in western North America. Recently, our team...

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