About the Cooperative
The Sagebrush Cooperative is a collaborative effort in the High Desert of Oregon, Idaho and Nevada working towards effective management and conservation of sagebrush steppe ecosystems. A diverse group of stakeholders have come together to identify strategies and priorities for successful conservation of sagebrush steppe at a regional scale. These partners, both public and private, have identified the sagebrush steppe as a degraded landscape and a priority habitat for conservation. The Sagebrush Cooperative was designed to address this situation through the process of identifying common goals, recognizing barriers to accomplishing those goals, and implementing strategies designed to overcome those barriers.
The establishment of the Cooperative is part of a new era of cooperation where communication and transparency are vital to promoting restoration and appropriate management of degraded sagebrush steppe habitat. The goals of the Sagebrush Cooperative are being accomplished through sharing of wildlife and habitat monitoring data and monitoring methods, distributing analytical tools and scientific developments, utilizing best management practices, identifying information gaps and acquiring funding to address critical needs.
The Cooperative puts projects in larger context to be more regionally effective and coordinates efforts of multiple organizations. These collaborative approaches to multifaceted, landscape scale problems are more effective at gathering information, garnering funds and implementing changes that affect a diverse array of landowners and managers, than any singular approach.
