Podcast: Ranchers Stewardship Alliance – Martin Townsend and David Naugle

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Live Under the Big Sky, a program of KLTZ in Glasgow, Montana, talks with Martin Townsend from the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance and David Naugle, Working Lands for Wildlife’s sagebrush science advisor about how conservation easements are helping protect some of the best rangeland habitat in north-central Montana and how the benefits extend to other public and private lands nearby.

Episode Title: Ranchers Stewardship Alliance

Podcast: Live Under the Big Sky

Producer: KLTV, Glasgow

WLFW Expert: David Naugle, WLFW’s sagebrush biome science advisor and professor of wildlife biology at the University of Montana

Topic: Conservation easements in north-central Montana

Air Date: 12/10/24

Listen Time: 1:00:01

Martin Townsend and David Naugle sit down with the host of Live Under the Big Sky to talk about conservation easements and how conserving working lands helps landowners, wildlife, and communities. New science shows that conserving working rangelands through easements extends benefits to other land nearby, whether public or private.

Learn More:

• They Think They’re Just Ranching – RSA story about conservation easements in north-central Montana.
• Modeling Cropland Conversion Risk to Scale-Up Averted Loss of Core Sagebrush Rangelands – Recent article featured in the Sagebrush Conservation Gateway showing how conservation easements in north-central Montana have helped benefit nearby public and private lands beyond the boundary of the easement itself.