UVE’s Land & Livestock Stewardship Trust is a perpetual landholding model designed to protect and regenerate working lands while creating pathways for new stewards to build equity, thereby strengthening rural economies, ensuring ecological resilience, enhancing rural prosperity, and tribal sovereignty. 

Rooted in Holistic Management and enabled by a growing set of policies such as Oregon’s Stewardship Trust law (ORS 130.193), the model safeguards the land base in perpetuity while balancing three outcomes: 

• Land Regeneration – Protect and restore grasslands using livestock integration and Holistic Planned Grazing. 

• Community Prosperity – Provide training in Holistic Management, land-based entrepreneurship, equity-building, and financial literacy, while providing land access to emerging stewards. 

• Financial Sustainability – Generate stable income for stewards, investors, trustees, and beneficiaries while maintaining capital security. 

A Stewardship Trust is scalable and replicable, and in partnership with tribal nations, it can become a "land back" vehicle—restoring fractionated allotment lands, enhancing sovereignty, and building regenerative economies rooted in cultural and ecological values. 

Tony Malmberg spent his life as a rancher.

To do his job well, he told the Statesman Journal in fall of 2024, he also needed to be a poet.

“By poetry, I mean explaining to the environmental community how my being out on the land contributes to their values, whatever that value may be,” said Malmberg, who died in April 2025. "It might be fish in a river, it might be sage grouse, it might be functional ecosystems. Whatever it is, I can explain how my working with livestock contributes to their values on the land.”

Malmberg practiced holistic agriculture for four decades.

This summer, I had the privilege of traveling to the Africa Centre for Holistic Management at Dimbangombe Ranch, just outside of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. My destination wasn’t just a place; it was an experience, an immersion into ways of thinking about our relationship with land, myself, family, community, and the future of humanity. How do we manage the complexity of it all?

As an Accredited Professional with the Savory Institute, I was there to attend a mastery class on Holistic Management taught by none other than Allan Savory, the pioneering thinker whose work has reshaped how we understand the connection between The Ecosystem, agriculture, and human survival. Guiding us alongside Mr. Savory was Byron Shelton and Jody Butterfield. For five days, I was joined by a diverse group of participants: ranchers, business leaders, educators, financial experts, and others, each bringing unique perspectives and insights to the table. All of us seeking knowledge and understanding. How must we behave now to provide for future generations?