From south and north of the United States and Canadian border, about 90
individuals representing a variety of organizations gathered at Glasgow,
Montana's Cottonwood Inn for the Transboundary Grasslands Workshop. The
Transboundary Grasslands Partnership is involving a lot of agencies, not
just government, from federal, state, provincial and municipal. It also
includes our landowners our stakeholders our nonprofit agencies. We are building
this partnership together to maintain and preserve our native grasslands. This
workshop rotates between the three jurisdictions. So, we started in Alberta,
went to Saskatchewan and Montana. And so, the agenda is very focused on what
people are doing on the landscape, how we can get from there to the greater
picture. The Transboundary Grasslands Partnership work plan development
session was also held. We will go back and take the information from this
workshop and build a work plan and get people connected to different agencies
that they might want to be able or can be able to work with in relation to
their their work. I found the workshop today very beneficial. It was more than I
anticipated - very inspiring speakers, there's some
mechanical things, some studies done that I found very valuable the information
that I wasn't I was unable to access before. It's been very beneficial. I'm a
rancher in south Phillips County, Montana. We raise livestock, cattle and sheep, cut
some grass, seed, harvest hay, and half the ranch is
almost federal land, BLM. So, we have a close working relationship with the
Bureau of Land Management. BLM employees from the North Central Montana District's
Malta and Glasgow Field Offices attended the event. In Valley County, in the BLM
Glasgow Field Office we have BLM lands that stretch from the Canadian
border all the way down the Missouri River and there's a lot of opportunity
from meetings like this that we can come away with relationships and information
to really help manage those public lands moving forward. We manage a lot of acres
and the BLM can parlay the expertise and the knowledge and the funding that's
available here to benefit the wildlife species, benefit the riparian areas,
benefit the range land out there.
The Nature Conservancy operates the Matador Ranch, which is a sixty
thousand acre ranch. So, we're working with a group of partners both in Montana
as well as engaging with our Canadian partners across the border about what
have shared conservation and how to best work with local ranchers and landowners
and stakeholders. We work with BLM quite a bit. We lease over twenty thousand acres
of BLM lands at the Matador and then also work on conserving private lands
using conservation easements that are a large part embedded within bigger BLM
ownerships. I view BLM is a really key partner in this effort, both based on
their ownership pattern, but also the fact that BLM has been a really
critical entity for delivering on the ground stewardship and technical
expertise with ranch owners. It's been really interesting learning about the
different ways that they've approached similar problems. It always helps to pull
in more partners and more expertise. BLM is one of our greatest partners working
across the landscape. We work on private lands, but you can't get anything
accomplished for our federal species of concern without working across the
landscape, which means public and private land partnerships. So, from working with
BLM, to working with state agencies, to working with our nonprofit partners, to
working with folks in the transboundary region, it's all about growing those
connections locally and internationally at every scale to sort of promote
grasslands and do what we need to do for the species and people on the landscape.
The BLM is making America great through shared conservation. It's a win-win for
ranchers and conservation.
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