Annual Christmas Dinner 2025
10 December 2025
Meet new people and make new friends who also love the West. Partake
in Western Lands Preservation's Annual Christmas Dinner, this year held
Selling In The East
2 October 2025
I made a trip up to Vermont to see a friend
and the farm he was working at. Apart from spending time with the "farmily," I used the drive up and my time there
Summer Summary
3 September 2025
An update on how the Super Summer of Selling went. Progress, lessons learned, the full adventure. Here
is a blow-by-blow of everything I thought relevant, with little to no
WLP Escapes The Matrix
17 June 2025
With the dawn of summer Western Lands Preservation has
begun its first foray into the retail scene. So far our products inhabit eight stores stretching
Annual Christmas Dinner 2024
3 December 2024
Meet new people and make new friends who also love the West. Partake
in Western Lands Preservation's Annual Christmas Dinner, this year held
Trail Camera on the Preserve
1 September 2024
This mountain lion prowled his way across WLP's First Preserve
on July 28, 2024, three days before I arrived to pick up the trail camera that took this picture.
We'd set it up a month prior, on a lightly trodden trail on the forested side of the
Western Lands Preservation and the East
4 January 2024
At this point I've spent four months in Ithaca, New York, attending
college. That's some 1,800 miles away from Utah, WLP, and the Preserve. I've only visited the Eastern States
Annual Christmas Dinner 2023
18 November 2023
Meet new people and make new friends who also love the West. Partake
in Western Lands Preservation's Annual Christmas Dinner, this year held
First Member Hike
5 August 2023
I've written this blog post to commemorate our very first
member hike to the Preserve! Many thanks to Bill Gerrard, our official first tourist to our land, and the beginning of many
Foundations
18 February 2023
So we attended the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo here
in Salt Lake City recently. Even though it is mainly geared towards hunting, we figured there would be a lot about the outdoors and might spark some ideas for
First Preserve
12 September 2022
Western Lands Preservation just bought 30 acres of land up Soldier Canyon in Tooele, Utah - our very first property!
The deal
Thoughts On Fire
7 August 2022
I'd like to talk about some burnt trees.
To preface, we were in Utah, going to look at some
Lets Go On A Hike
12 June 2022
It was Sunday, June 12th, when I said to my dad, "Let's go on a
hike." And so we did. Up American Fork Canyon nearby. We drove to a lake in the canyon, and it
Wyoming Outback
15 April 2022
Another drive to our 40 acres of Wyoming outback. I hadn't been
there in six months and was hoping to experience some snow