Why a Western Stewardship Summit?

Collaborative approaches that restore the western landscape and foster resilient economic models for rural communities are beginning to influence policymakers and federal investment. By forging common ground and moving past conflicting interests, these efforts are restoring watersheds, sustaining working landscapes, honoring local culture and tradition, and providing economic opportunities for rural communities.

The Western Stewardship Summit will create strategic connections among dispersed rural leaders in the West and between urban-based interest groups -- where distance can be a formidable barrier -- and provide opportunities to extend restoration and community impacts through new initiatives, and strengthen and diversify mechanisms in communities where restoration and stewardship efforts are currently practiced.

The Western Stewardship Summit will:

• Strengthen the network of people working on collaborative restoration across various sectors and issue areas;
• Increase the rapid diffusion of concepts and approaches to collaborative restoration by providing a venue for participants to share their stories of success and lessons learned;
• Identify political, financial, and technical approaches that can increase support for and investment in place-based restoration and stewardship across the West;
• Document the priority tools, techniques, and other lessons presented and disseminate those findings to attendees and other practitioners who could not attend the Summit;
• Strengthen the collective voice and presence of collaborative restoration approaches in local, state, and national decision-making processes.

Learn more about who should attend the Summit.

View the Western Stewardship Summit DRAFT agenda - UPDATED!

The Western Stewardship Summit is a collaborative effort of: