Leopold Live: Conservation Easements
Leopold Live! is back with Chapter Two, Episode 23 - Conservation Easements with expert Chad Ellis from the Texas Agricultural Land Trust. Leopold Live! began as a live-streaming seminar series conducted in partnership with the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Bamberger) to demonstrate to natural resource students, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts the original 5 creative methods conceptualized by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s to effectively manage game and therefore conserve wildlife ecology. The series builds on “the central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun.”
Each month we are joined by Bamberger ranch staff and experts in the field to explore and demonstrate each of Leopold's five tools and to give viewers tangible practices that they can implement out in the field.
Tune in here to ask questions, connect and learn about these essential tools for wildlife habitat management on your property.
Resources:
Chad Ellis Bio: https://www.txaglandtrust.org/our-team
Texas Agricultural Land Trust: https://www.txaglandtrust.org/
Ecosystem Services Report: https://nri.tamu.edu/media/3564/texas...
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association: https://tscra.org/
Texas Farm Bureau: https://texasfarmbureau.org/
Texas Wildlife Association: https://www.texas-wildlife.org/
Texas Land Trends Data Explorer: https://data.txlandtrends.org/
Aldo Leopold: https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/ald...
Smokehouse Creek Fire Story: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/...
Smokehouse Creek Fire Relief Resources: https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/20...
Prairies and Fire: https://texasprairie.org/prairies-and...
Bamberger Landowner Workshops: https://www.bambergerranch.org/worksh...
Carbon Market Report: https://nri.tamu.edu/publications/res...
Aldo Leopold's Writings: / 43828.aldo_leopold
Texas Land Trusts: https://texaslandtrustcouncil.org/lan...
TALT Family Stories: https://www.txaglandtrust.org/our-work
Wetland Reserve Program: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-in...
Donated vs. Purchased Easements: https://www.txaglandtrust.org/protect...
Farm and Ranchland Protection Program:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land...
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-in...
Landowner Generational Transfer: https://txlandtrends.org/media/x33d4f...
Regional Conservation Partnership Program: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-in...
Habitat Leases: https://westernlandowners.org/policy/...
Conservation Easements in Texas: https://nri.tamu.edu/media/2305/conse...
Texas Land Trust Council: https://texaslandtrustcouncil.org/