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 Releases Summary Report on Regional Partnership Forum Series 2023-24
Partnerscapes, USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, landowners, and partners from across the country convened for three regional forums (West, East and Midwest) during 2023 and 2024.
Partnerscapes and USFWS Partners Program Completes Third of Three Partnership Forums in the Midwest
Partnerscapes and the USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program convened the third of three partnership forums in this first round of meetings at the end of April 2024.
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.
Eastern Partnership Forum Summary Report
Eastern Partnership Forum summary report now available.
Eastern Partnership Forum Convened in West Virginia
Partnerscapes, staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service–Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, landowners, and other conservation partners gathered the week of January 15th at the National Conservation Training Center to learn from each other and share challenges, opportunities, lessons learned, and networking ideas related to conservation partnerships on private lands in the eastern United States.
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.
