Rio Grande Valley Broadband • Entered by Susan Ostlie on June 29, 2021
CLCP – Collaborative Landscape Conservation Planning: Fostering local stakeholder engagement
June 9, 2021
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | |
| Post Admin hours | 2 |
| Activity Hours | 1 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 3 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Grant Funded Climate Education & Stewardship Program
Key Partners: Network for Landscape Conservation1
Landscape/area: Cibola National Forest (1616435 acres)
Short Description of Activity
Natural resource practitioners are increasingly taking a collaborative, landscape-level approach to natural resource conservation. Despite its potential advantages, this approach faces challenges. Primary among these is ensuring ecosystem-wide goals for conservation can effectively inform local management plans and actions. This necessitates working with local stakeholders. Opportunities for local stakeholders to participate in landscape conservation planning are often limited, in part because conservation leaders are uncertain about whether, when, and how these stakeholders might most effectively participate in decision processes.
In this presentation, Catherine Doyle-Capitman will provide an overview of best practices for engaging local stakeholders and incorporating social data during collaborative landscape conservation planning. An overview of these best practices can be found in the following practitioners’ guide: Facilitating Local Stakeholder Participation in Collaborative Landscape Planning
Reflection/Evaluation
This is what I needed to study before I started the whole local grazing discussion with the Zuni Mt. residents. I will be reworking my strategy for saving what little remains of the formerly pristine meadow ecology. Things can go bad so quickly before you even notice the major damage, and that makes us all poor stewards of the land…but few want to hear that and take responsibility for it.