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For more information, contact Nathan Korb at nkorb@tnc.org or (406) 925-1144 Beyond Our Borders The work of our partnership has built grassroots momentum for collaborative, proactive solutions to ecological issues, and led pio- neering science and stewardship across broad range of habitats including sandhills, sagebrush, Douglas-fir, aspen and willow. This has resulted in increased opportunities to allow fires—both prescribed and wildfire—to burn across 40,000 acres of wilderness and other public lands. Centennial Valley FLN & Gravelly Landscape Partner Agencies & Organizations Bureau of Land Management Centennial Valley Association Greater Yellowstone Coalition Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Montana State University Private ranch operations Ruby Watershed Committee The Nature Conservancy Trout Unlimited U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service—Red Rock Lakes NWR University of Montana Western USDA Forest Service—Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF (Madison RD) USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Wildlife Conservation Society The Fire Learning Network is supported by Promoting Eco- system Resiliency through Collaboration: Landscapes, Learn- ing and Restoration, a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior. For more information, contact Lynn Decker at [email protected] or (801) 320-0524. An equal opportunity provider Success in Restoring Fire-Adapted Ecosystems We’ve worked together to create strategic, widespread, consistent management of Douglas-fir/aspen forests across private, state, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lands in our landscape. The key to doing this has been building a diverse coalition of people who sincerely care about the long-term health of forests and who are willing to learn from one another. Looking Ahead We’re looking forward to doubling the scope of our program, expand- ing from the Centennial and Big Hole Valleys to encompass numer- ous basins within the Upper Missouri Headwaters. Adaptive Management We’re trying to direct science to provide us with quantitative evaluations of the effects of our conservation actions on target species to accelerate learning and deeply engage both management and research communities in this endeavor. What We’re Learning In the past year we’ve been able to hone our strategies to address focused, specific questions: How do we shift the understory over a significant portion of the Douglas-fir forests without killing all the trees? How do we conserve a broad freshwater system with high uncertainty from climate change? Centennial Valley FLN Yellowstone National Park WYOMING IDAHO MONTANA Lakeview Caribou-Targhee NF Beaverhead- Deerlodge NF Red Rock Lakes NWR BLM BLM Monida Red Rock Dillon Lima West Yellowstone Island Park Gallatin NF © TNC/Nathan Korb © TNC/Nathan Korb v. 24 May 14 © TNC/Liz Rank

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Page 1: F,R( - Conservation Gateway · PDF fileF,R(LRNNG N(T:2RK For more information, contact Nathan Korb at nkorb@tnc.org or (406) 925-1144. Beyond Our Borders. The work of our partnership

FIRELEARNINGNETWORK

For more information, contact Nathan Korb at [email protected] or (406) 925-1144

Beyond Our BordersThe work of our partnership has built grassroots momentum for collaborative, proactive solutions to ecological issues, and led pio-neering science and stewardship across broad range of habitats including sandhills, sagebrush, Douglas-fir, aspen and willow. This has resulted in increased opportunities to allow fires—both prescribed and wildfire—to burn across 40,000 acres of wilderness and other public lands.

Centennial Valley FLN& Gravelly Landscape

Partner Agencies & OrganizationsBureau of Land ManagementCentennial Valley AssociationGreater Yellowstone CoalitionMontana Department of Natural Resources and

ConservationMontana Fish, Wildlife & ParksMontana State UniversityPrivate ranch operationsRuby Watershed CommitteeThe Nature ConservancyTrout UnlimitedU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service—Red Rock Lakes

NWRUniversity of Montana WesternUSDA Forest Service—Beaverhead-Deerlodge

NF (Madison RD)USDA Natural Resources Conservation ServiceWildlife Conservation Society

The Fire Learning Network is supported by Promoting Eco-system Resiliency through Collaboration: Landscapes, Learn-ing and Restoration, a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior. For more information, contact Lynn Decker at [email protected] or (801) 320-0524.

An equal opportunity provider

Success in Restoring Fire-Adapted EcosystemsWe’ve worked together to create strategic, widespread, consistent management of Douglas-fir/aspen forests across private, state, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lands in our landscape.The key to doing this has been building a diverse coalition of people who sincerely care about the long-term health of forests and who are willing to learn from one another.

Looking AheadWe’re looking forward to doubling the scope of our program, expand-ing from the Centennial and Big Hole Valleys to encompass numer- ous basins within the Upper Missouri Headwaters.

Adaptive ManagementWe’re trying to direct science to provide us with quantitative evaluations of the effects of our conservation actions on target species to accelerate learning and deeply engage both management and research communities in this endeavor.

What We’re LearningIn the past year we’ve been able to hone our strategies to address focused, specific questions: How do we shift the understory over a significant portion of the Douglas-fir forests without killing all the trees? How do we conserve a broad freshwater system with high uncertainty from climate change?

CentennialValleyFLN Yellowstone

National Park

WYOMINGIDAHO

MONTANA

Lakeview

Caribou-TargheeNF

Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF

Red RockLakes NWR

BLM

Monida

Red Rock

Dillon