A road map to place-based collaboration for conflict reduction

Place-based collaborative groups offer a means to coordinate community-scale action to address wildlife-livestock conflicts, and processes to lift landowner and livestock producer needs, while finding areas of agreement and shared purpose to meet a variety of resource challenges. These groups, many of which are landowner-led, may include all or part of a particular community and offer a way to meaningfully engage state and federal wildlife agencies, non-profit organizations and other stakeholder groups within a community-level decision-making process.  

This is a hands-on guide for developing landowner-led, place-based collaborative groups with a focus on reducing wildlife-livestock conflicts. While your regulatory context, stakeholders, wildlife and landscape will vary, this 10-step guide provides a process and examples to aid landowners and practitioners in developing community-led solutions to address wildlife-livestock conflicts. Four case studies provide on-the-ground examples of how place-based collaborative groups have formed and organized to address conflicts and support landowner and wildlife needs.