Management of threatened or imperiled species on private land is a complex subject.� Successful management of these species requires establishing and maintaining trust with private landowners.� Trust is a combination of an emotional and logical act, and requires time and patience to create.� The Soil & Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) in Oregon developed relationships and trust between private landowners and federal agencies to establish 30-year Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances (CCAA) for greater sage grouse (GSG) conservation.� In addition to decreasing the likelihood of a GSG listing, CCAA management plans were developed to address impediments to practical implementation and to ensure that western rangelands and generational ranches maintained ecological and economic viability. The process utilized in Oregon may have application to GSG across western rangelands.� In this presentation, I will guide the audience through the complexities of landowner engagement and trust, and the roles and responsibilities of the parties involved in enabling and implementing GSG agreements.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.