Land Management
Nurturing and facilitating the earth’s own natural capacity to manage and rehabilitate land resources is at the heart of WEST’s land management service area. Our approach seeks to solve some of the most difficult climate and earth resource challenges facing landowners today. Conventional agricultural and livestock management practices bear great responsibility for degrading soil quality and drastically limiting its capacity to absorb carbon and to filter and absorb water. WEST understands that when managed properly through planned grazing, livestock become a critical land management asset for reversing desertification. As the growing body of research in holistic land management shows, this and related interventions restore soil organic matter, substantially increasing the land’s ability to absorb and retain water, and ultimately reducing flooding, soil loss, and mitigating drought. Contact WEST to learn how holistic land management improves earth resources, boosts productivity, and increases profitability.
WEST’s land management services were recently featured on an episode of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering With Nature® podcast.
WEST’s land management services include:
- Land Rehabilitation Concept Studies
- Land Planning Infrastructure Design
- Ecological Monitoring
- Keyline Planning
- Holistic Management Training
- Tours of WEST’s Active Demonstration Site in Red Rock, Arizona
- NRCS PL-566 Plan/EAs, Engineering Design, and Construction Administration
- Planned Grazing Control Charts
- Land Rehabilitation Implementation Observation and Management
- Comprehensive Soil Health Program Development
Partial Client List
- City of Tucson Parks and Recreation, Tucson, AZ
- Cochise County, AZ
- Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Belen, NM
- New Mexico Department of Transportation, NM
- Town of Patagonia, AZ
- Town of Prescott Valley, AZ
