Partnerscapes attends Corridors, Connectivity and Crossings Conference in California
The Partnerscapes Blog by Steve Jester
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 earlier this month. The gathering featured a broad range of perspectives including state fish and game and transportation agencies, universities, tribes, federal agencies, private industry, as well as nongovernmental conservation organizations and funders.
Attendees heard about some of the great work that partners have been doing around landscape-scale work particularly around big game migrations, wildlife crossings, and landscape connectivity. Many, if not most, of the landscapes of interest at the conference (primarily Western) include substantial and important private lands. One interesting thing to note about this effort, particularly on the federal side, is that the effort got its start through a Department of Interior Secretarial Order and has now spanned two, and perhaps soon three, federal administrations–both helping wildlife and providing tools and pathways to help hold together working landscapes for natural resources but also the people that live and work there.
