One-on-one Stewardship Assistance

Our land steward is available to meet landowners and managers around the coffee table and out in the field to discuss land management goals and potential ways to achieve them. By conducting basic resource inventories and identifying priority habitat types and resource concerns, the land steward provides management recommendations that address specific issues and achieve their conservation goals.

Recommendations aim to enhance bunchgrass communities, riparian areas, forest conditions, and diverse wildlife habitat through specific actions such as noxious weed control, conifer encroachment removal, stream restoration, forest health and fuel reduction treatments, and innovative grazing management systems.  In many cases, landowners are connected with the most appropriate programs and partners to accomplish  their specific property goals.

Specific services include:

• Conduct natural resource assessments and inventories.
• Identify resource values worthy of conserving.
• Identify primary resource concerns in need of attention.
• Discuss short and long term goals.
• Help develop a management plan.
• Assist with grazing plans, soil health practices, seeding techniques, and species selection.
• Offer advice on materials and designs.
• Supply local contractor lists.
• Suggest methods to monitor progress and track change.
• Advise on additional partners, programs, and funding sources where appropriate.

 

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Get in touch with our land steward Brad Weltzein at brad@blackfootchallenge.org.