About the Prineville Local Implementation Team Coordinator
The Prineville Local Implementation Team is a collaborative partnership that shares the work of restoring sagebrush ecosystems within the range of sage-grouse in the Prineville area. This includes Crook, Deschutes, and northern Lake County. This is accomplished by identifying, prioritizing, and implementing landscape-level actions that maintain and enhance culturally, economically, and ecologically healthy public and private rangelands. This position will work with the Department of State Lands on contracting, layout, inspection and reporting for the County Line BIL funds project to cut juniper and treat invasive annual grasses in the Barbwire allotment; develop an RCPP grant application with the assistance of ODFW and the Crooked River Weed Management Area to prescribe juniper and invasive grass treatments in the LIT’s priority area; and attend partner board meetings for the SWCD, watershed council and CWMA to increase coordination, conduct informational sharing of partner efforts and be a conduit for emerging tools and science. They will also coordinate the updating of the Threats Reduction Plan (2022) with the LIT partners. The Prineville LIT’s Threats Reduction Plan (TRP) provides an overview of the threats that we wish to address and the work that partners have implemented. This document is used to guide funding requests, and direct restoration work to the areas where we expect to see long-term ecological benefits.
BLM Offices Supported: Prineville District Office
Position Established: April 2019
About the Oregon Local Implementation Team Coordinators
These positions were established to assist Oregon’s Sage-grouse Local Implementation Teams, which promote working land conservation and restore sage-grouse habitat and populations across the state. The number of Oregon Local Implementation Team (LIT) Coordinator positions were increased from three to five in 2024, commensurate with expansive Greater sage-grouse habitat in Oregon. Each Coordinator will engage stakeholders in an integrated approach to implementing state and federal sage-grouse conservation strategies. They will also ensure regular communication between the LITs and state level groups such as the SageCon Partnership, Oregon BLM, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, NRCS, and USFWS. Each of the five LITs will have a designated Coordinator to be hosted by a local organization, which will integrate each position into the community, provide local supervision and support, and add value to existing habitat improvement and collaborative work. The Coordinators will also serve as liaisons between federal, state, and local governments and stakeholders, streamlining habitat enhancement efforts across interest groups and ownership boundaries.
