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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.
