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Do you love wildlife or lands in the West? Whether you want to hike to remote places or sort images from a computer, there’s a project for you. Learn more below.
Photo by Max Malmquist
Mission
Sageland Collaborative provides science-based strategies for wildlife and land conservation.
Goals
For over two decades, Sageland Collaborative has applied the principles of conservation science to land and wildlife management. We bring together community science volunteers, wildlife and habitat studies, technical support, and computer mapping analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to conservation partners in our region. We seek to engage state and federal agencies and nonprofit partners who are in a position to make on-the-ground decisions regarding public resource management. As state and federal land and wildlife management agencies have their budgets slashed like never before, we continue to provide our partners with effective science-based strategies for conservation.
Engaging the Community in Conservation Science
Photo by Sarah Woodbury
History
Founded by Jim Catlin in 1996 to assist the citizens’ roadless re-inventory of Bureau of Land Management lands in Southern Utah, Sageland Collaborative began as a means to provide much-needed science to the conservation of wildlife and wildlands. The study area for this initial project, called Wild Utah Project, consisted of nine million acres of wilderness, which is home to rare desert waterways, wildlife, and wildlife habitat. These efforts resulted in the proposed America’s Red Rock Wilderness Bill in Congress.
Since our inception, we have worked to conserve landscape level connectivity for vital wildlife corridors. Along with our partners at the Wildlands Network, we envision the world’s most extensive network of protected and connected lands. Achieving this grand vision requires coordinated efforts of conservation groups from Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental to Alaska’s Brooks Range.
We work to achieve this vision by advocating for the use of best science for wildlife and habitat management, contributing critical data for better wildlife and wildlands policy, engaging the community in conservation science, and supporting our partners in shared conservation goals.
Environmental Community Services
Sageland Collaborative provides a variety of services for our non-profit, state and federal agency, and academic partners. Whether teaming up on a grant, a competitively bid contract, or providing fee-for-service work, we assist our partners in meeting their conservation planning goals through our GIS Lab, eco-regional planning expertise, and designing and carrying out novel ecological studies in the field.