The JV8 is implementing grassland conservation programs across a landscape of 500 million acres and across multiple nations with the goal of reversing or stabilizing the decline of bird populations in the central grasslands of North America.

A grassland easement (also known as a habitat easement) is a legal agreement signed with the United States of America, through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, that pays landowners to permanently keep their land in grass.

2023年11月6日 · Grasslands, the diversity of people, and worldviews they support require landscape-level, innovative, cooperative, and interdisciplinary approaches to conservation. Existing international collaboration examples include:

Conserving grasslands at scale requires an all-hands-on-deck approach. Combining landowner ‘know how’ with new spatial technology helps ensure the right practices hit the ground in the right places to keep rangelands productive, intact, resilient and healthy.”

2022年11月10日 · With 84 percent of central grasslands in the United States in private ownership, collaboration with ranchers and farmers is critical to conservation success.

John is the Regional Grassland Conservation Coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region, based in Billings, MT. He was formerly the Branch Chief for Resources and Sage-Grouse Implementation Lead for Montana/Dakotas Bureau …

2024年5月7日 · The Southern Cone Grasslands Alliance will improve habitat quality for both neotropical migratory birds and resident birds through sustainable ranching practices. The partners aim to reduce threats and losses to native grasslands, such as conversion to crop and forest monocultures.

The Grassland & Sagebrush Conservation Portal is an ArcGIS Online platform that provides access to maps, apps, data, documents, and other resources for practitioners working in grassland and sagebrush biomes.

To mitigate for the project’s impact on these species, the draft HCP proposes to permanently conserve 3,993 acres of privately-owned grassland habitat within the Kern River watershed. This preserved land will provide connectivity via wildlife corridors between the Carrizo Plain and the San Joaquin Valley.

Conservation easements are an effective alternative to fee acquisition that helps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) achieve the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) while keeping land in private ownership.