CONFLICT REDUCTION WEBINARS

Ranchers across the American West are facing expanding populations of large carnivores, including wolves and grizzly bears, that threaten their livestock operations in various ways. In 2020, a West-wide team of people invested in working lands conservation received a NRCS National Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to explore landowner collaborative strategies for non-lethal predator management (click to download a project summary). This group, called the Conflict on Workinglands CIG (CoW-CIG) team, worked closely with NRCS as the agency developed an Interim Practice Standard (IPS) on predator management techniques.

Now, the CoW-CIG team is hosting three webinars this summer/fall to discuss practice implementation with ranchers and NRCS staff. The webinars will share practical information on the three different techniques for managing predation and production risks of large carnivores that the team is continuing to evaluate. Ranchers from multiple states in the West who are utilizing these practices, along with other members of the CoW-CIG team, will share ideas for transitioning from innovative strategies to broadly applicable practices through the NRCS Conservation Delivery framework.