About Sean
Needing a dedicated position to facilitate their collaborative work, the Southwest Montana Sagebrush Partnership hired Sean Claffey in June 2018 as their Coordinator. In his role, Claffey is tasked with stimulating, coordinating, and completing priority habitat restoration and enhancement projects within sagebrush steppe and associated systems. The goal of the position is to build strategic, scientific, and technical capacity in the field, deepen key partnerships, identify and resolve technical issues, and widely communicate solutions and best practices. Claffey is working with private and public partners to manage and advance cross-boundary habitat restoration and enhancement projects within the High Divide Headwaters region of Montana.
Claffey’s position is currently funded by a partnership between The Nature Conservancy of Montana, BLM, Mountain-Prairie Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and IWJV. Additional partners include: Montana NRCS, Montana Partners for Fish and Wildlife U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana Department of Natural Resources, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Beaverhead Watershed Committee, U.S. Forest Service, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Claffey is located in the BLM Dillon field office.
BLM Offices Supported: Dillon BLM Field Office, Western Montana Field Office
