Building Partnerships in Stewardship Economies: Ranching, community-based organization, voluntary conservation, rangeland research, and policy-making all intersect in successful efforts for rural economic development and sustainability. Let’s talk about it!

Are you interested in strategies for working more effectively with peers and partners?

Hear from representatives from local, state, and west-wide efforts focused on the stewardship of working lands and working communities by working together.

March 28 at noon PST
Centering Community Voices – Using Situation, Problem Solution Framework

• Functionality and dysfunctionality of collaboration
• Problems and wicked problems
• Feasibility, utility & risk
• Situation, problem, solution
• Where does innovation and adaptation happen?
• Why do we engage or not engage?
• Talking through examples like: Public Lands, Water, Wildlife, and Economic Development

April 25
Ranchers in the Driver’s Seat: Addressing risk, strengthening community, and improving quality of life together

• Inviting new perspectives and skill sets into your community—and when some just show up
• Managing the tensions – being grounded in the community while navigating funding, agency rules/culture, etc.
• Leaning into the cycles of conflict and resolution, and knowing when not to partner/collaborate and who to invite
• Multi-generational opportunities and challenges
• The power of convening/coordinating capacity as generative/emergent

May 30
From ranch to co-lobor-atory, from research to co-production- better science through community partnerships

June 27
Grounded policy – discovering solutions within ranching communities