California’s working lands power the economy—$404B in sales, 1.5M jobs, 75,500 businesses. From farms to forests and renewable energy, these landscapes sustain communities and careers statewide. 🌱
Source: UC ANR
#WorkingLands #CaliforniaAg #SharedRoots

Water returns after harvest, and so do the birds. Tundra swans and geese using California rice fields as part of a 500,000 acre winter habitat network.

#Birds #Agriculture #WorkingLands

🌱 Welcome Kelsey Olson, CURE’s Director of Environmental Stewardship! She’ll lead Working Lands, education, and rural engagement.

Meet Kelsey: curemn.org/blog/team...

#EnvironmentalStewardship #WorkingLands #RuralMN

Lone Star Ranch: Six Generations of Stewardship, Now Protected Forever The 4,688-acre Lone Star Ranch in Humboldt County has been permanently conserved through a California Rangeland Trust easement, preserving both its working legacy and vital wildlife habitat.

Lone Star Ranch: Six Generations of Stewardship, Now Protected Forever kymkemp.com/2025/07/23/lone-star-ran... #LoneStarRanch #HumboldtCounty #LandConservation #WorkingLands #CaliforniaRangelandTrust #OpenSpaceProtection

🌾🚧🐄 Scenes from an incredible #virtualfencing workshop we hosted at Magruder Ranch in #MendocinoCounty! We teamed up with local ranchers to talk all things virtual fencing & discuss how this tech can help manage cattle while protecting wildlife. Thanks to all who participated! #WorkingLands

🌱👩‍🌾 Scenes from an incredible #RancherToRancher Day at Ford Ranch! Producers + conservationists gathered to explore grazing planning, talk soil health, restore water cycles, & enhance wildlife habitat. Thanks to all who joined us! 🐄🧪🌾🌎💧 #ClimateSmartConservation #WorkingLands #PointBlue

🌿🐝 Curious about the wildlife on your land? Our new guide helps CA land stewards, farmers, ranchers, & community scientists support #wildlife and #pollinators on #workinglands. Learn how to monitor wildlife, track change & contribute to conservation! 🌱🌎🦉🧪🔗 shorturl.at/TgSIT

We’ve got a winner! Actually, we have four! 🎉 Check out the winning entries from the CRCC's 2025 Summit Photo Contest!

⛅ "Sun Cloud" by Heather Bernikoff
🐑 "First Born" by Jill Hackett,
🐎 "The Gather" by Stephanie Roundy
🌾 "Faithful" by Jill Hackett.

#CaliforniaRangelands #WorkingLands

Growing pains: The next generation of farmers struggles to fit on preserved farmland Conservation easements have checked development from gobbling up agricultural tracts for decades, but growers increasingly chafe against the policies’ size restrictions.

Agriculture easements are great for protecting land from development.
They are not great at keeping farmland in farming.

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

#conservation #easement #agriculture #farming #landaccess #farmland #agricultureeasement #conservationeasement #workinglands #farmers

Bioacoustic surveys and vegetation mapping in #cropland shows noncrop habitats aren’t addressing grassland bird conservation needs and that you can share data collection with farmers. #workinglands doi.org/10.1002/eap....

a biologist smiling while taking a soil sample on a working ranch surrounded by green grass and blue sky in the background

🌾 Farms and ranches can be hubs for biodiversity! Through our #WorkingLands program, we collaborate with landowners to create strategies that balance food production with healthy ecosystems and carbon storage. 🍃
#PointBlue #SustainableFarming #ResilientRanching
📷 a rangeland ecologist studying soil