San Francisco, Calif. – Recognizing the significant contributions of leading California farmers and ranchers to environmental stewardship, Sand County Foundation, California Farm Bureau Federation and Sustainable Conservation announce three finalists for the 2008 Leopold Conservation Award in California.  Named in honor of world-renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, it carries a $10,000 cash award. The Leopold Conservation Award is presented annually in seven states to private landowners who practice exemplary land stewardship and management.

SANDY, UT –   Sand County Foundation, the Utah Farm Bureau Federation and the Utah Cattlemen’s Association are proud to announce the finalists for the 2008 Leopold Conservation Award in Utah.

LINCOLN, NE –   Sand County Foundation and Nebraska Cattlemen are proud to announce the finalists for the 2008 Leopold Conservation Award in Nebraska.

SCF Director Dr. Ingrid (Indy) Burke, a renowned ecologist who has had a distinguished career in teaching and research, has been named director of the Haub School and Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) at the University of Wyoming.

Baraboo News Republic's Ben Bromley writes about Sand County Foundation friend Frank Terbilcox being recognized for his lifetime of ecological stewardship.

A tour of Pape Ranches, near Daniel, sponsored by the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, took place Tuesday, July 15. The ranch, owned by Norm and Barbara Pape, is the winner of the 2008 Leopold Conservation Award, which is presented by Wisconsin-based Sand County Foundation as part of the Wyoming Environmental Stewardship Awards program.

The Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) this week announced approval of a $2 million project by the Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative (CSI) to develop a market-based approach for restoring rangelands and critical wildlife habitat in the sagebrush region of the western U.S.  Initial funding for CSI was provided by Sand County Foundation’s Bradley Fund for the Environment. The Foundation has been the leader of this partnership since 2006 by securing funds, hosting meetings and sponsoring research.

Sand County Foundation and the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association are proud to name Terry Peters as the winner of the $10,000 2008 Leopold Conservation Award in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin-based conservation organization Sand County Foundation, in partnership with the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and the Colorado Agricultural Land Trust, is proud to name Coleman Ranches, Inc. as the winner of the 2008 Leopold Conservation Award in Colorado.

The famed wide open spaces of Texas are under siege, threatened by ever-expanding suburban development and fragmenting into ever-smaller pieces as people in cities buy up land in the country. The good news is conservation-minded landowners are bastions against these trends, places like Llano Springs Ranch south of Junction, which on May 21 received the Leopold Conservation Award for Texas from Sand County Foundation and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, part of the department’s Lone Star Land Steward Awards program.

Sand County Foundation President Dr. Brent Haglund spoke Friday, May 2 at the Going Green Wisconsin Expo, at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis. His presentation, titled Local Solutions for Environmental Improvement, gave voice to the idea that principled, voluntary, and enduring solutions to significant environmental problems have been developed by private landowners across America.

ARVADA, COLO. –April 8, 2008 –Sand County Foundation, the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, and the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust are proud to announce the finalists for the 2008 Leopold Conservation Award in Colorado.

Sand County Foundation seeks an individual to fill the position of Associate Program Director for its Community Based Conservation Network (CBCN). This individual will be responsible for coordinating and documenting citizen-led conservation projects across North America, facilitating learning exchanges among landholders and practitioners, and assisting Foundation staff in identifying and disseminating lessons learned across projects in North American and Africa.  The Associate Program Director will be assigned a lead role in designated projects and will support program development, management, and fundraising.