Grassbank Resources

· Arid Lands Grazing Network - The Nature Conservancy - The Aridlands Grazing Network provides a forum and ongoing support for the development and implementation of conservation strategies in the context of aridland ranching.

· BEHAVE - Consortium for the Application of Behavioral Principles in Management

· Bolle Center - The University of Montana - The Bolle Center is an independent, service-oriented natural resource learning center. The Bolle Center was established in 1994 at the School of Forestry of the University of Montana.

· Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium - The Community Based Collaboratives Research Consortium CBCRC) is a national network comprised of researchers, mediators and faciliators, government agencies

· Center for the Rocky Mountain West - The Center for the Rocky Mountain West is a regional studies and public policy center at The University of Montana in Missoula

· Conservation Fund - The Conservation Fund forges partnerships to protect America’s legacy of land and water resources. Through land acquisition, sustainable programs, and leadership training, the Fund and its partners demonstrate effective conservation solutions emphasizing the integration of economic and environmental goals.

· North American Fire Learning Network - The Nature Conservancy

· Headwaters News - Headwaters News provides a daily snapshot of news and opinion in the Rocky Mountain region of North America, giving the changing West a tool to better understand itself. It provides a platform for the exchange of ideas, and to explore how online journalism can best suit and serve the West

· Malpai Borderlands Group - Malpai Borderlands Group (MBG) is a rancher-led nonprofit organization in a 800,000-acre landscape in the “bootheel” of New Mexico and Arizona, on the Mexican border.

· National Public Lands Grazing Campaign - The National Public Lands Grazing Campaign is a multi-year, multi-organization strategy to end abusive livestock grazing on the nation's public lands.

· Quivera Coalition - Quivira Coalition is to foster ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.

· Rangelands West - A Western Rangelands Partnership delivering quality information, resources, and tools
to improve management of western rangelands

· Sonoran Institute - The Sonoran Institute brings diverse people together to achieve their conservation goals in Western North America, from Mexico to Canada.

· Society of Range Management - promote the professional development and continuing education of members and the public and the stewardship of rangeland resources

· The Nature Conservancy - The Conservancy preserves natural communities by protecting lands and waters
they need to survive

· The Valle Grande Grassbank - For six years the Fund has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service, NMSU-Cooperative Extension Service, Northern New Mexico Stockman’s Association, Quivira Coalition, Ford Foundation, and McCune Foundation to revitalize public grazing lands under the auspices of the Valle Grande Grass Bank. Balancing economic and environmental objectives, local ranchers place their cattle on the Valle Grande’s 36,000 acres while their allotments on federal lands are restored.

· Western Watersheds Group - The mission of Western Watersheds Project is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation.

Stephanie Lynn Gripne, Boone and Crockett Wildlife Conservation Program, School of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, stephanie.gripne@umontana.edu