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The Stewardship Alliance of Northeastern Elko (SANE) was formed in 2012. SANE was organized by representatives of eight ranches in northeastern Nevada in response to the potential listing of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse). The SANE land base encompasses over 1.7 million acres (688,000 ha). The area is approximately 495,000 acres (200,000 ha) of private ranch land and around 1,200,000 acres (488,000 ha) of public land allotments managed by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service (USFS). Over fifty percent of the habitat found in the area was designated a Sagebrush Focal Area in the BLM Resource Plan and USFS Land Use Plan sage-grouse amendments. SANE includes the State and Federal land management and resource agencies and wildlife agencies with regulatory authority and management authority in the region. SANE tackled the planning and implementation of sound conservation management through the development of a Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation Plan. SANE is a collaborative, consensus based local group that developed from the ground up. SANE addresses the social science side of the GRSG equation through the facilitated collaborative model that builds trusting relationships, the foundation of solution based resource management.