Malpai Borderlands Group
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🇺🇸 United States
A collaborative of Arizona-New Mexico borderlands ranchers invented "grassbanking" — trading grazing rest on drought-hit ranches for conservation easements — to keep nearly a million acres of open range intact and productive.
78kacresPrivate land protected from subdivision via conservation easements
1MacresUnfragmented borderlands landscape under collaborative ecosystem management
5,000structuresHand-built water-harvesting structures installed to restore eroded grassland gullies