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Proceedings of the Third Biennial Grasslands Conference AmericA’s GrAsslAnds conference PARTNERSHIPS FOR GRASSLAND CONSERVATION PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE on the Conservation of ameriCa’s Grasslands september 29 - oCtober 1, 2015 • fort Collins, Colorado THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSERVATION OF AMERICa’s Grasslands: Conference Proceedings 1 AmericA’s GrAsslAnds conference: PArtnershiPs for GrAsslAnd conservAtion PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSERVATION OF AMERICa’s Grasslands September 29 - October 1, 2015 Fort Collins, CO Edited by Lekha Knuffman, National Wildlife Federation Published July 2016 by National Wildlife Federation Suggested citation: Knuffman, L., ed. 2016. America’s Grasslands Conference: Partnerships for Grassland Conservation. Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference on the Conservation of America’s Grasslands. September 29-October 1, 2015, Fort Collins, CO. Washington, DC: National Wildlife Federation. National Wildlife Federation 1990 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006 www.nwf.org 2 THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSERVATION OF AMERICa’s Grasslands: Conference Proceedings CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS............................................. 1 Organizing Committee ....................................................................................................................... 2 Conference Co-chairs ......................................................................................................................... 2 Co-hosts ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Sponsors .......................................................................................................................................... 2 KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS................................................. 3 Opening Keynote: Guardians of Flyover Country .................................................................................... 3 Carol Davit Grassland conversion across the United States: Current status, impacts, and policy implications ................. 7 Tyler J. Lark, University of Wisconsin-Madison Presentations and Posters ................................................................................................................... 9 1. TRACKING THE STATUS AND CONVERSION OF GRASSLANDS.............. 9 Characterizing land use changes in the Dakotas using historical satellite sensor data: 1984-2015 ................. 9 Gaurav Arora, Iowa State University Plowprint: Tracking cumulative loss of grassland to cropland across the Northern Great Plains and beyond ... 11 Anne M. Gage, World Wildlife Fund Farmland use decisions and grassland conversion in the Dakotas: 2015 survey and analysis ........................ 12 Larry Janssen, South Dakota State University The utility of the Cropland Data Layer for monitoring US grassland extent .................................................. 15 David M. Johnson, United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service Using time series NDVI to monitor grassland phenology and characteristics in Montana ............................... 19 Sarah K. Olimb, World Wildlife Fund are we near a tipping point? .................................................................................................................. 21 Mapping the potential for fire induced transitions of tallgrass prairie to shrubland and woodland: Zak Ratajczak, University of Virginia ................................................... 21 Jef Hodges, National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Working towards a “natives first” policy for USDA conservation programs Prairie pothole politics: Conserving grasslands though public policy ........................................................... 22 Eric Lindstrom, Ducks Unlimited Using landscape design principles to conserve grasslands under near-future forecasted agricultural development ...................................................................................................................... 23 Kyle Taylor, Playa Lakes Joint Venture THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSERVATION OF AMERICa’s Grasslands: Conference Proceedings ii Data Layer: Cautions and recommendations ............................................................................................ 24 Measuring land-use and land-cover change using the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cropland Tyler Lark, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. SYMPOSIUM: MANAGING RANGELANDS AS SOCIAL- ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS .................................................................... 28 Managing knowledge, people and natural resources to provide ecosystem services ....................................... 29 Presenter: David D. Briske, Texas A&M University Exploring rancher mental models for adaptive management: The case of Lonesome Pines Land and Cattle ...... 29 Hailey Wilmer, Colorado State University .............................................. 30 David Augustine, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Rangeland Resources Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO Adaptive grazing management for beef and birds in the western Great Plains .. 31 Aaron Trujillo, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Identification of win-win solutions for landowners and wildlife: The key to successful conservation delivery What do we learn from each other? Operationalizing participatory research in Northwestern Colorado rangelands ........................................................................................................ 32 Retta A. Bruegger, Colorado State University Integrating monitoring data and ecological site descriptions to achieve multi-species bird conservation in sagebrush rangelands .................................................................................................... 32 David C. Pavlacky Jr, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Managing for multiple species in Northwestern Colorado: Sage-grouse and songbirds ................................. 33 Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) population response to grazing management and precipitation across broad scales in Wyoming ................................................................................... 34 Adrian P. Monroe, Colorado State University 3. PARTNERSHIPS TO CONSERVE GRASSLANDS AND PROMOTE RANGELAND HEALTH ....................................................... 35 in the Northern Great Plains ................................................................................................................. 35 An adaptive management framework for managing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prairies Cami Dixon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Biological Resources, Mountain-Prairie Region, Woodworth, ND. New ways of working to catalyze the future of farming ............................................................................ 37 Allison Van, Winrock International Sustaining bird populations with a conservation atlas and change strategy for Midwestern grasslands ......... 40 Dan Lambert, High Branch Conservation Services Habitat Exchange ................................................................................................................................ 40 Ted Toombs, Environmental Defense Fund iii THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSERVATION OF AMERICa’s Grasslands: Conference Proceedings Leopoldian Land Stewards – Fostering a land ethic .................................................................................. 41 Breanna Owens, Point Blue Conservation Science one ranch at a time .............................................................................................................................. 42 Point Blue Conservation Science’s Rangeland Watershed Initiative: Rewatering California, Wendell Gilgert, Point Blue Conservation Science Using avian focal species to inform rangeland management in California grassland and oak Savannah ........... 45 Geoffrey R. Geupel, Point Blue Conservation Science ..................................................... 49 Elspeth Kim, Center for Natural Lands Management Using range wide collaborations to conserve Pacific Northwest prairies Utilizing stakeholder developed grassland corridors to guide collaborative habitat restoration ............................................................................................................................. 51 Jessica Gist, Arizona Game & Fish Department in Northern Arizona Multi-institutional collaborations to manage federally protected areas ...................................................... 52 Luis Enrique Ramirez, Denver Zoological Foundation ....................... 53 Mollie Walton, Quivira Coalition Results of grassland stakeholder survey of collaborative grassland management approaches Empowering landowners to achieve conservation goals, The Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture ....................... 55 Jon Hayes, Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture: Strategic habitat conservation for grassland birds on working lands in Oklahoma and Texas ................................................................................................................ 56 Jim Giocomo, Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture Northern Plains Conservation Network -- Connecting conservation ........................................................... 58 Northern Plains Conservation Network participants ................................................................. 61 Wilma Renken, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service Desert grasslands restoration: A successful
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