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Jordan Menge
About JORDAN This position is the first of its kind focusing on conservation efforts tailored towards one of the longest mule deer migration corridor routes in North America and surrounding wintering range. The BLM’s Arizona Strip District includes the northern portion of the Kaibab Plateau mule deer herd, which is part of the larger Kaibab…
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CA/NV – Bi-State Local Area Working Group Coordinator
About The position The Bi-State Local Area Working Group (LAWG) works across jurisdictional boundaries to conserve Greater Sage-grouse and their habitats in the eastern Sierra region of California and Nevada. The LAWG was in need of someone to help the working group continue to grow and advance. In August 2018, they hired the first Bi-State…
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Janyne Little
About Janyne The Buffalo-Skedaddle Sage Grouse Working Group needed a dedicated position to further support the collaborative conservation, management and restoration efforts of promoting long-term conservation of sage grouse, the sustainability of sagebrush ecosystems, and working rural landscapes. The partnership hired Janyne Little in July of 2020 to do just that! Little’s position provides the…
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Ryan Holt
About Ryan The BLM’s North Park Landscape has some of the best core sagebrush habitat in Colorado and also hosts one of the largest wetland complexes in the state. To keep the resiliency of this landscape the BLM, IWJV, and Colorado Open Lands partnered to support a Landscape Coordinator to work out of the BLM…
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India Barker
About India Seeking to enhance landscape-scale conservation and restoration efforts across Northwestern Colorado, the Mule Deer Foundation, Intermountain West Joint Venture, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and other local and state partners have come together to support a new position in the region, a Northwestern Colorado Sagebrush Conservation Partnership Coordinator. India…
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Connor White
About Connor The Boise District BLM and numerous partners have engaged on a landscape scale effort to treat the persistent invasion of junipers into into their local sagebrush landscape, the Owyhee Uplands of Southwest Idaho. Over the course of the next 10 years they will strategically treat a total of 617,000 acres, with over 150,000…
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Evan DeHamer
About Evan This position will work as part of the restoration team within the BLM’s East Idaho Rivers and Plains Landscape assisting with tracking treatment/restoration success, partnerships, and outreach, and assisting project implementation and monitoring. The position will work in consultation with the BLM Idaho statewide restoration coordinator and field coordinators located in district and…
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Adrienne Hoskins
About Adrienne In fall of 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced an initiative known as Outcome-Based Grazing Authorizations. It is designed to offer a more collaborative approach between the BLM and its partners within the livestock grazing community when issuing grazing authorizations. The purpose of this project is to improve BLM’s management of…
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Ellie Burken
About Ellie This position has played an integral role in expediting and expanding conservation practices across the Burley Landscape Project area by providing coordination between partners including the BLM, NRCS, USFS, public land permittees, and other agencies and stakeholders. This partnership has contributed greatly to removing encroaching conifers across land ownership boundaries, which has continued…
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Brenda Richards
About Brenda Stakeholders established the Idaho Rangeland Conservation Partnership (IRCP) to formalize collaboration among existing land management entities, private land owners, livestock producers, conservation organizations, and other committed partners to foster positive results on rangelands. Brenda Richards was hired as the Coordinator to build the IRCP network and support locally-led rangeland collaboratives, organize meetings, develop…
