Protecting Our Resources

Through the Malpai Borderlands Group, we have protected 75,000 acres of private land through conservation easements, which will protect it as natural wildlife habitat and productive ranch land by preventing subdivision and development. We work actively with ranchers and landowners to develop these conservation easements. You may read more about this process by following the link to "Conservation Easements" located in the navigational panel to the left under "Land Protection".

The Malpai Region

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Our group also invented the concept of “Grassbanking”, by which neighboring ranchers who were experiencing serious drought could rest their ranches from grazing by moving their herds to the Gray Ranch under reciprocal conservation agreements. To learn more about this innovative concept, follow the link labeled "Grassbanking" located in the navigational panel under the heading "Land Protection".