en español: https://mailchi.mp/8dde527c69df/rsvp-for-the-2020-central-grasslands-roadmap-summit-704688?e=b8f1966612 Hi GPCN participants, FYI – Latest from the Central Grasslands Roadmap for those not yet plugged in. Don’t forget to sign up for the new GPCN Listserv. You should have received a notification (may be in your junk mail or you may have suspicions about it—but it is OK). If you did not receive this email from GPCN and are still only getting it from npcn@bigskynet.org <mailto:npcn@bigskynet.org> , contact our coordinator Jenny Bryant at jennycbryant@gmail.com <mailto:jennycbryant@gmail.com> . Chamois Anderson is GPCN’s new chair for 2021—please give her a warm welcome! Have a great day and enjoy spring—stay well! Cliff Wallis P. Biol. Director, Alberta Wilderness Association (outgoing Chair, GPCN) 455-12 St NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1Y9 <http://www.albertawilderness.ca/> www.AlbertaWilderness.ca phone (403) 271-1408 (direct); cell (403) 607-1970 deercroft@shaw.ca <https://mailchi.mp/d0ae5f733487/rsvp-for-the-2020-central-grasslands-roadmap-summit-697300?e=635f292453> View this email in your browser <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/4d810a28-4cd3-466d-9449-40f7a800456c.jpg> Para leer este correo electrónico en español, <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=e3d71c98d5&e=635f292453> haga clic aquí. (To read this email in Spanish, <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=5d9a22c355&e=635f292453> click here.) <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/b499f4d9-1818-4d29-8174-c81982c08dcd.png> ROADMAP UPDATES Thank you for all that you have done to contribute to the Roadmap! This winter, implementation planning continues within a variety of workgroups: * Leadership teams from Canada, Mexico, and First Nations/Indigenous are discussing strategies for specific actions and increasing participation to provide input for policy, funding, and communication initiatives; * Presentations about the Roadmap have been made to several working lands collaboratives to lay the ground work for future collaboration and to launch a listening survey to landowners, ranchers and land stewards to gain input for policy, funding, and communication initiatives; * Initial brainstorming for a public messaging campaign is underway; * Foundations are identifying funding priorities and resources to sustain the Roadmap work into the future; * Workgroups for Industry and Federal partners are formalizing to identify priority actions and commitments; * Delegates and partners representing states will come together on April 8th to discuss their role in the Roadmap * and Teams are looking at metrics, mapping, and a draft scorecard to understand current conditions across the scale, and track progress overtime. If you are interested in joining a future workgroup conversation prior to the next Summit, <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=28f1c13143&e=635f292453> please sign-up here. In the following sections we are not able to highlight every sector in each newsletter, but over the course of these communications we will work to highlight as much great work as possible. PARTICIPATE: FEEDBACK AND STORIES REQUESTED <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/f1e1bafb-2c45-4678-8a08-ac4bbe5045f3.png> Provide Feedback: A longer version of the Roadmap will help track and inform all of this work. Compiled from additional notes, speaker presentations, and discussions during the 2020 Summit, <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=e548dc6172&e=635f292453> this long form of the Roadmap further describes the complex collaboration and identifies more specific priority actions. Please <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=25bbaa86a3&e=635f292453> provide a <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=c1c4117816&e=635f292453> red-flag review to let the planning committee know whether or not the long form of the Roadmap is on track. Overall, the Roadmap is a living document in which we anticipate on-going input and refinement as we begin to implement top priority areas. Share a Story: Want to share a spotlight story of your work in the Grasslands, or recommend another colleague’s or organization’s story? Email us at info@grasslandsroadmap.org <mailto:info@grasslandsroadmap.org> to contribute to this newsletter where you can reach and engage more than 175 partnering organizations, 8 sectors, and countries, states, provinces and nations across the Grasslands. POLICY AND FUNDING UPDATES <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/6f6d5b70-fe64-44c4-83f6-ee0812945f0b.png> New Funding Announced A new initiative to protect and restore the Canadian Prairie Grasslands was announced by the Weston Family Foundation on March 3 to mark World Wildlife Day. The Weston Family Prairie Grasslands Initiative awards nearly $25M to five organizations to collaborate on one of the largest prairie grasslands conservation efforts in Canadian history. Stretching across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Canadian prairie grasslands are home to hundreds of species including more than 60 species at risk. The Foundation will fund organizations working with local communities to advance ecologically and economically sustainable long-term solutions for this critical landscape. Dozens of partners will support this work that will affect nearly four million acres of priority native grasslands with the goal of achieving landscape-level impact on the biodiversity of this region. _____ Redefining Conservation Policy for the 21st Century <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/bb3d51f0-034b-4980-aa16-1de5d091020f.png> Western Landowners Alliance (WLA) is working with the Biden administration and partners to ensure that working landscapes play a pivotal role in policy initiatives to conserve biodiversity, build back our economy and infrastructure, combat climate change and create a more equitable future. 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The Initiative will examine the interdependent relationships between western communities and state and federal land /resource management entities, and the role that local communities play in successful land planning and management processes. WGA has developed <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=5c3c74d50e&e=635f292453> a survey to help design the Initiative by identifying priority issues for gubernatorial leadership, best practices for improving cross-boundary resource management in the West and federal policy issues for potential WGA advocacy. Responses are requested by March 5 but will be accepted after that date. If you have additional information or any questions regarding this Initiative, please contact Bill Whitacre, WGA Senior Policy Advisor ( <mailto:bwhitacre@westgov.org> bwhitacre@westgov.org). _____ Our Amazing Grasslands <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/68b2b6d0-c0fa-4ff0-8f99-68b6688eb0ff.png> The South Dakota Grassland Coalition with NRCS has partnered with several organizations to enhance their grassland planner with a series of short video stories. Each month, they publish monthly features on YouTube sharing stories of local ranchers promoting healthy soils, grasslands, and ecosystems. The March story features Turtle Peak Ranch in Wessington Springs, <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=c091bff82d&e=635f292453> which can be viewed here, along with links to all previous stories. These are inspiring and educational to watch and underscore many of the principles identified in the Roadmap. RESEARCH AND EVALUATION UPDATES The quantity of research being produced across the Central Grasslands is significant. We are continuing to create a clearinghouse of important articles, reports on initiatives, thought pieces, and scientific research on the <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=4e2070288f&e=635f292453> website’s Resources page. Additionally, delegates are actively submitting new pieces for everyone’s consideration, which can be found <https://mcusercontent.com/1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405/images/454359f7-76b9-477d-b053-9bc21686f281.png> on this <https://birdconservancy.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ddef33c92fe2bffb1a85a405&id=3f6d4e0fe2&e=635f292453> expansive resource page. Please submit research highlights that are critical and relevant to the Roadmap via email: info@grasslandsroadmap.org <mailto:info@grasslandsroadmap.org> . For example, one recent piece submitted, Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social- ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana, examines the "Urgency and deliberateness are often at odds when executing conservation projects, especially as the scale and complexity of objectives increases. The pace of environmental degradation supports immediate and measurable action. However, best practices for adaptive governance and building resilient social-ecological systems call for more deliberate efforts and participatory processes, which can be slow. 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