Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy
Government Administration - Clovis, New Mexico, United States
Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy Employees
Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy Details
The Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy (OLWC) was created specifically as a nonprofit organization in the State of New Mexico for the primary purpose of conserving the groundwater resources of the Ogallala Aquifer, which experiences only limited recharge, through the use of conservation easements, while transitioning irrigated farmland and ranchland to dryland cropping or grazing land. This is a looming issue for every farmer, rancher, and community dependent on the Ogallala Aquifer from Texas to North Dakota, and the effort around Clovis/Curry County will be the first endeavor to use conservation easements to conserve the groundwater in the Aquifer. This purpose reflects unchartered territory for land trusts, making the Ogallala Land & Water Conservancy currently one of a kind among land trusts.
