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In March 2010, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)�designated the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus. urophasianus) as a candidate species for�protection under the Endangered Species Act.� Because sage-grouse are landscape species that inhabit lands owned by multiple jurisdictions, the�management of these areas to maintain connectivity between populations will be paramount to their conservation. Within Utah, Governor Gary H. Herbert chartered a Task Force to develop�a statewide plan for the conservation of sage-grouse and provide for the continued economic health of the state. The Conservation of Greater Sage-grouse in Utah (Plan) was published in 2013.� The Plan�was an alternative hypothesis to an ESA listing. It was developed using information collected over two decades of research sponsored by a community-based conservation�(CBCP) adaptive resources management local working group�(LWG) process throughout Utah.�This process has enhanced communications and collaboration among private stakeholders, local, regional and state governments, and state and federal management agencies and mitigated�statewide conservation threats to sage-grouse and other sagebrush (Artemisia�spp.) obligate species. Because of this�effort, the state of Utah possessed unparalleled knowledge about the factors essential to the species conservation. When�the efforts were aggregated into a statewide plan for sage-grouse, the collective result provided an organized approach for addressing the factors used by the USFWS to measure the success of conservation actions.�success of each LWG plan rests on the CBCP�s ability to work with partners to fund the research needed to obtain better information about the effects of specific management practices on sage-grouse. The CBCP process combined local knowledge into an integrated extension and research program that allowed LWG members to learn together how best to manage the landscape while they were actively managing it. This research has linked science to policy and management to�guide Utah�sage-grouse conservation efforts.