Restoration PARTNERS & FUNDERS
The collaboration of local, state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, ranchers, and volunteers has been essential in achieving landscape-scale restoration across land management boundaries. This is the type of collaboration that is needed to effectively prepare nature and people for an uncertain future. The local ranchers that have been engaged recognize that the restoration techniques are improving forage for livestock and helping keep water on the land for a longer time during the growing season. On one private ranch after a year of restoration, the rancher said: “This is the most important project we’ve done for the Gunnison sage-grouse.”
Matt Vasquez, Wildlife Biologist for the USDA Forest Service, Gunnison Ranger District, stated: “Using a holistic based collaborative approach, this project has unequivocally engaged the Gunnison community on a shared passion to build resiliency and enhance ecosystem services. This shared passion for the natural resources we all depend on has been immensely gratifying and inspiring to be a part of.”
We thank the many partners for numerous in-kind contributions and generous funding of this project.
This project would not have been possible without the cooperating ranchers, landowners, and permittees.
This project would not have been possible without the cooperating ranchers, landowners, and permittees.
- BIO-Logic, Inc.
- Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
- Bureau of Land Management
- Colorado Natural Heritage Program
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife
- Great Outdoors Colorado
- Gunnison County
- Gunnison Conservation District
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Sagebrush Landscapes Program
- National Park Service
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- San Miguel County
- Terra Foundation
- The Nature Conservancy
- Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District
- USDA Forest Service
- Western Colorado Conservation Corps
- Western Colorado University (formerly Western State Colorado University)
- Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado
- Wildlands Restoration Volunteers
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- Zeedyk Ecological Consulting
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Volunteers from Western Colorado University's MEM program helping out near Wolf Creek (09/2016)