Working Lands

Landowner Habitat Guides

Landowner Habitat Guides

— Paying attention to the needs of birds can help you maintain a functioning, healthy ecosystem on the lands in your care.
Lesser Prairie-Chicken Conservation

Lesser Prairie-Chicken Conservation

Audubon Southwest's efforts to save a grassland grouse on the brink of extinction.
Burrowing Owl Conservation

Burrowing Owl Conservation

Protecting this small, day-active owl from development through education, relocation, and conservation.
Nancy Ranney: A Conservation Ranching Perspective for Birds and Beef

Nancy Ranney: A Conservation Ranching Perspective for Birds and Beef

— “It should not be surprising that ranchers and environmentalists are working together.”
Grassland Conservation

Grassland Conservation

— Grassland birds and grass-fed beef go well together, and each requires public support to survive.
Audubon New Mexico Partners with Ranney Ranch to Launch Innovative Conservation Ranching Program to Restore Imperiled Grasslands.

Audubon New Mexico Partners with Ranney Ranch to Launch Innovative Conservation Ranching Program to Restore Imperiled Grasslands.

— Audubon’s Conservation Ranching Program will result in widespread habitat enhancement in North America’s most imperiled ecosystem, grasslands.
Conservation Ranching

Conservation Ranching

A market-based approach to restore and enhance imperiled grasslands throughout the Southwest.
Pinyon Jay Conservation

Pinyon Jay Conservation

Protecting one of the Intermountain West's most iconic species