Partnerscapes Blog
Private Lands Partners Day is Right Around the Corner
If you have the time and the ability to get to Minnesota, it will be a great learning opportunity through immersion in stories about how broad partnerships are accomplishing great things for natural resources.
USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service and Farm Service Administration Announce Changes
Earlier this month, the Natural Resource Conservation Service and Farm Service announced major changes.
Are Changes Coming to the Data, Process, and Planning Infrastructure of Conservation Partnerships?
What might be the impact of AI on voluntary collaborative conservation work with private landowners?
Remembering Carl Madsen: A Pioneer of Private Lands Conservation
It is with deep respect and sadness that we share the passing of Carl Madsen, a pioneering leader in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a true champion for private lands conservation.
The Power of Thanks
Thank you for all you have done for your land, landscape, community and organization this year! I wanted to state that up front before I expand on why it is important, knowing this is long enough to get moved from the newsletter to the blog page!
Guest blog: Letter from the Land – Wisconsin BHA
It is my hope that when the importance of a program like USFWS-Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program is questioned, the important impact the program has had on college organizations and young conservationists like UWSP is strongly considered in the conversation.
Guest blog: Letter from the Land – South Dakota
I cannot stress enough how absolutely important and valuable the PFW program is to farmers and ranchers, and by helping to sustain and promote wild and native grasslands, it is extremely beneficial to our whole society as well.
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s – Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!
Since the Program’s inception in 1987, over 50,000 landowners have worked with Partners staff to complete 60,000 habitat conservation projects on 7 million acres.
Partnerscapes and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Partners Program Host Virtual Great Plains Partnership Forum
The Great Plains Partnership Forum scheduled for February in Manhattan, Kansas was caught in a Polar Vortex...
Partnerscapes attends Corridors, Connectivity and Crossings Conference in California
Partnerscapes was invited by conference organizers and USDA-NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife to offer a private lands perspective at the Pew Charitable Trust Corridor and Connectivity conference.
It Happened! Private Lands Partners Day 2024 – Redmond, Oregon
After over 6 years of planning and delays (think pandemic) Private Lands Partners Day (PLPD) Oregon is in the books!
Are Grasslands Important to Our Climate? (On EQIP and IRA)
Recent NRCS guidance will make it much harder to utilize IRA and EQIP funding over huge swaths of the nation, particularly central grasslands and Great basin rangelands.
Private Lands Partners Day 2024 in Central Oregon
Private Lands Partners Day 2024 is coming to Redmond, Oregon in October!
Partnerscapes in Washington DC
Partnerscapes board members and staff traveled to Washington DC in early May primarily to meet with some of the agencies that work in partnership with private landowners to achieve shared goals.
USDA Conservation Funding Remains at Unprecedented Levels
The 2018 Farm Bill expired last year and even though a new Farm Bill has yet to be approved, there remains an unprecedented amount of conservation funding available through USDA-NRCS.
Growing Interest In Supporting Practitioners Delivering Voluntary Conservation
Since its inception, Partnerscapes has worked to support partners that work with private landowners and others in delivering partnership-based voluntary conservation in our national landscapes. The hope has been, as we continue to deliver these events and demonstrate a need and interest in this type of work that others will pick up the torch.
Private Lands Partners Day 2023 – A Homecoming
Last week folks from all over the country gathered in western Montana for the 15th annual Private Lands Partners Day. This year’s meeting returned to the original location and the beginning of Partners for Conservation, which became Partnerscapes. The Blackfoot Watershed, and the highly regarded and accomplished community-based collaborative conservation effort called the Blackfoot Challenge, were the true hosts of the event, even though attendees stayed in Missoula.
An Example of Landscape-Scale Collaborative Conservation Outside the United States – Friends of Usambara
Partnerscapes recently received an email from Nusura Seleman Ramadhan an environmental specialist working with the Friends of Usambara society in Tanzania. The description of the organization and its work on all three “legs of the stool” (the ecologic, economic and sociologic aspects of a place) is very familiar to Partnerscapes and all others involved in collaborative community-based conservation in this country.
Reese Thompson Named Forest Landowner of the Year by Forest Landowner Association
Former Partnerscapes Board Director and Georgia tree farmer, Reese Thompson, was recognized by Forest Landowners Association as their Landowner of the Year at their National Conference of Private Forest Landowners held recently in Nashville, Tennessee!
The Challenges of Implementing Historic Conservation Funding on Private Land
Conservation dollars are here. Now the challenge is developing rules, developing relationships and partners, and getting work down on the ground with some pretty aggressive timelines for implementation.
