Welcome to the International Community for Landscapes, Agriculture, Animals and Wildlife
ICLAAW started as a collaborative project by Large Carnivore Fund and The Tom Miner Basin Association for ranchers. We are expanding this to globally support ranching, herding and farming and resources to reduce conflict with wildlife on working landscapes. The goal is simple: Prioritize our natural resources, and in doing so our ways of life.
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Importance of place
ICLAAW was founded within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), which spans 22 million acres / 8,903,084 hectares across the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho in the United States. We call this massive, complex, diverse and threatened region home. ICLAAW was founded within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which spans 22 million acres / 8,903,084 hectares across the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho in the United States. We call this massive, complex, diverse and threatened ecosystem home.
Community
Some of us grew up here on ranches and farms, and some intentionally moved here. Our community in Montana stretches from the northern border of Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner and Silver Gate, up through Paradise Valley. It is not just the wildlife and landscapes that are diverse, but also the people that are part of it. We’re all different but share a common goal - to keep this ecosystem as intact as possible, because our livelihoods, lifestyles and future depend on it. To do that we have to work together.
We’re all different but share a common goal: to keep our ecosystem as intact as possible. From working lands, wilderness, wildlife and megafauna, livilihoods depend on wild places.
ICLAAW launched in the spring of 2025. We have a simple mission: to help prioritize our natural resources, and in doing so our ways of life.
Working on building partnerships with international agencies for sustainable, lasting change from within communities, by the people making a living from the land.
As this community grows we will add statistics to show the progress.
For Producers
Designed with and for ranchers, breeders, herders, farmers and communities. Some are successfully implementing practices that support rich working landscapes with all the native wildlife that belong in the ecosystem. If you want to try it you can find help here, find peers and communities.
For Wildlife Program Providers
ICLAAW is also designed for programs that work with communities and landowners for wildlife deterrent implementations, e.g. securing attractants, communal herding, electric fences, fladry, foxlights, and species awareness in hotspots to help community safety and local livelihoods.
Working Lands
Working lands provide food, fiber, energy and critical habitat for wildlife. In the US, approximately 80% of wildlife species depend on farms, ranches, and forests for their survival. Wildlife and native plant variety on working lands can be a mutually beneficial relationship, increasing rangeland productivity and promoting multi-use landscapes.
More Revenue Streams
Around the world, agriculture and animal husbandry businesses and rural communities are diversifying income sources, benefiting from alternate income streams from their land, including tourism opportunities. Communities like ours around Yellowstone National Park benefit over 82 million US dollars from wildlife tourism annually.