Beyond Conflict:

Name: Beyond Conflict: Sustaining Economic Viability in the Working Wild
Start: 2021-11-08T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-11-10T17:00:00-07:00
Location: online

Nov 08 - Nov 10 2021

Beyond Conflict: Sustaining Economic Viability in the Working Wild

November 8-10, 2021

11am - 5pm Mountain Time

Join us virtually for three engaging days with land stewards seeking solutions around large carnivore conflict reduction with partners from the Conflict on Working Lands Conservation Innovation Grant and Conflict Reduction Consortium.

View and download the event flyer here.

Beyond Conflict is a three-day virtual gathering that offers a transformative vision grounded in the experience of land stewards who are managing resources in working wild landscapes.

Sessions will provide a solutions framework for wildlife-livestock conflicts we call the 4Cs - compensation, conflict prevention, control (lethal) and collaboration - focused on the ecological and economic viability of working lands. This framework recognizes that the broader American public values the presence of diverse wildlife across the West, including large carnivores, and looks for shared solutions across rural and urban communities guided by those closest to the land.
Participants from two overlapping collaborative efforts, the Conflict Reduction Consortium (CRC) and the Conflict on Working Lands Conservation Innovation Grant (CoW-CIG) team, will together set a path for reducing wildlife conflicts by managing risk to livestock on working lands.
Conservation of large carnivores is resulting in expanding populations accompanied by increasing depredations. Comprehensive strategies guided by science and practice are needed to support livestock producers in reducing these conflicts. In joining this transformative gathering, you will gain a west-wide understanding of the current situation of wildlife-livestock conflict on working lands and help build solutions to keep the West working and wild!

EVENT AGENDA

Day 1: Conflict on Working Lands (CoW) Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) Work Day

November 8 | 11am - 5pm

Participants: CoW-CIG partners and Conflict Reduction Consortium participants.

11am - Introduce Beyond Conflict Conference and Conflict on Working Lands Conservation Innovation Grant (CoW-CIG) Project

Welcome and agenda overview - Alex Few, WLA Working Wild Challenge Coordinator
Opening Remarks - Tom Watson, NRCS Montana, State Conservationist
Intro to CoW CIG - Gary Burnett, HOTR Executive Director & Denny Iverson, Iverson Family Ranch, Potomac, MT

11:30am - Blackfoot Challenge Panel Discussion - Fencing to Reduce Conflicts

Jim Stone - Rolling Stone Ranch, Ovando MT
Seth Wilson - Blackfoot Challenge, Executive Director
Eric Graham - Blackfoot Challenge, Wildlife Coordinator
Josh Schrecengost - NRCS Montana, District Conservationist, Deer Lodge
Jerry Shows - Assistant State Conservationist - Programs, NRCS Montana

12:30pm - Blackfoot Challenge Panel Discussion - Q&A

1pm - Brown Bag Lunch in the Lounge

1:30pm - The Value of Co-Producing Knowledge Through Collaborative Research

Thad Heater, NRCS Technical Contact
Bre Owens, Western Landowners Alliance Stewardship Coordinator
Julie Young, USDA-Wildlife Services National Wildlife Research Center

1:45pm - CoW-CIG Session on Carcass Management

Linda Owens - Madison Valley Ranchlands Group, Ennis, MT
Stewart Breck, USDA-Wildlife Services National Wildlife Research Center
Matt Hyde, Colorado State University
Josh Schrecengost - NRCS Montana, District Conservationist, Deer Lodge

2:15pm - Ian Tyson - 18" of Rain

2:20pm - Reflecting on the Role of Partnerships in the CoW-CIG

2:30pm - Short Break

Lounge open

2:45pm - CoW-CIG Session on Range Riding

Jay Shepherd - Northeast Washington Wolf Cattle Collaborative
Wyatt Hanson - Willow Creek Ranch, Susanville, CA
Rae Nickerson, Utah State University
Kyle Tackett - NRCS Montana, Assistant State Conservationist - Programs

3:30pm - Interactive Check In

3:45pm - CoW-CIG Session on Fencing

Jim Stone - Rolling Stone Ranch, Ovando, MT
Matt Hyde - Colorado State University
Josh Schrecengost - NRCS Montana, District Conservationist, Deer Lodge

4:15pm - Closing Remarks & Happy Hour Rooms

Four separate rooms on:

Range Riding
Carcass Management
Resource Concerns
Technological Solutions to Conflict Reduction: Real Time Remote Detection of Wildlife

5pm - Conversation continues in the Lounge

Platform closes at 5:30

Day 2: Integrated Approaches for Success in Comprehensive Conflict Reduction: the 4Cs

November 9 | 11am - 5pm

Participants: Land steward guests of WLA, HOTR and CRC members along with CoW-CIG partners, Conflict Reduction Consortium participants, and USDA guests.

11am - Welcome, Housekeeping and Overview of Day - Bre Owens, Western Landowners Alliance

11:05am - Opening Remarks - Jack Hanson, Willow Creek Ranch, Susanville, CA

11:10am - A New Model for Conservation in the West with Lesli Allison, Executive Director of Western Landowners Alliance

11:15am - The Situation Problem Solution Framework for Collaboration with Jared Talley

Jared Talley, Environmental Philosopher and Interdisciplinary Scholar, Boise State and ID Office of Species Conservation

11:35am - The History of Federal Land Management with Nathan Sayre

12:00pm - Q&A with Nathan Sayre and Jared Talley

12:20pm - Collaboration for Adaptive Grazing Management Across Jurisdictions with James Rogers and Liz Munn

James Rogers, Winecup Gamble Ranch
Liz Munn, Sagebrush Ecosystem Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy

1:00 - Brown bag lunch break in the lounge - Q&A with Lizz Munn continues

Lounge open

1:30pm - Landowner panel on the 4Cs

Albert Sommers, Sommers Ranch, Upper Green River Cattlemen’s Association, WY
Cat Urbigkit, author and rancher, Sublette County, WY
Jim Hagenbarth, rancher, Dillon, MT
Lenny Klinglesmith, LK Ranch, Northwestern CO

2:30pm - Q&A with Landowner Panel

3pm - Short Break

3:15pm - Collaborating across Difference with Jared Talley, Idaho Office of Species Conservation

3:45pm - Reflection on Collaboration

4pm - Dave Naugle: Collaborating with Landowner Partners to Develop Science in Support of the Sage Grouse Initiative

4:45pm - Closing Remarks

Bre Owens kicks off Happy Hour!

4:45 - Happy Hour Rooms & Lounge Open

Four separate happy hour rooms on:

Q&A with Dave Naugle
Conflict Reduction on Federal Grazing Allotments
Technological Solutions to Conflict Reduction I: Real Time Remote Detection of Wildlife
Technological Solutions to Conflict Reduction II: Responses to Predator Presence

Day 3: USDA Listening Session and Conflict Reduction Consortium Work Day

November 10 | 11am - 5pm

Participants: CoW-CIG partners, Conflict Reduction Consortium participants, and USDA guests.

11:00am - Welcome, Housekeeping and Overview of Day - Zach Bodhane, Western Landowners Alliance

11:05am - USDA Listening Session Opening Presentations

Robert Bonnie, USDA Undersecretary Nominee for Farm and Conservation Programs
Janet Bucknall, Deputy Administrator, USDA-Wildlife Services
Arthur Middleton, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley Interconnecting voices on the 4Cs
A Landowner Voice