BUILD THE COMMUNITY

Our “State of the Biome” Symposium Series

In honor of the 2026 International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP), and leading up to our Roadmap Summit in November, 2026, we’ve launched a symposium series to explore several different topics in the biome, and to create connection and work collaboratively on key initiatives. Each webinar will include expert presentations to provide status updates and build awareness about progress on each topic with biome-wide representation. Learn more and view resources from recent symposium series on our dedicated page.

Workgroups & Communities of Practice

The Central Grasslands Roadmap is uniquely positioned to convene cross-sector teams and representatives from across the biome to work together.

Workgroups work as a team to identify challenges and create collaborative solutions.

Communities of Practice provide space for attendees to learn one from another and consider best practices that can be scaled throughout the biome or applied to solving individual challenges.

Interested in joining a Workgroup or Community of Practice? Sign up here!

Illustration of Central Grassland Bird Working Group logo featuring farming, machinery, animals, and crops.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

JANUARY 2026

FEBRUARY 2026

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MARCH 2026

  • South Dakota’s 2026 Grasslands Summit, to be held March 3-4 in Mitchell, SD

2026

The International Year of Rangeland and Pastoralist (IYRP)

EMAIL US TO SUBMIT A CALENDAR ITEM: info@grasslandsroadmap.org

Summits

In both 2020 and 2022, more than 200 organizations across seven sectors representing Mexico, Canada, the U.S., and Indigenous/First Nations, came together to commit to conserve North America’s Central Grasslands. Summit and Roadmap participants always include a cross-section of leaders and experts that live and work in the Central Grasslands — including ranchers and producers, federal agencies, state/provincial agencies, foundations, industry, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and Indigenous/First Nations leaders.

See Materials and Agendas from the 2022 Summit

See Materials and Agendas from the 2020 Summit

Roadmap-Hosted Forums

Forums bring together smaller groups and partners from the Roadmap Summit to target specific issues, challenges and topics. Below are overviews and materials from several forums … please note that the material for each Forum is what was distributed at the time of the Forum, it is not up-to-date, but instead documenting the work in that moment in time.

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Stemming the Loss of Grasslands in Canada: A Policy Scan … Publication Event April 2024
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Mountain Plover Update Session ~ 2/10/22

On February 10th from 10 am - 12 pm MT, participants gathered from across the Central Grasslands to participate in a multilingual session to:

• Hear reports on grant activities and research

• Brainstorm comprehensive list of conservation delivery and ‘mitigation ‘opportunities

• Catalyze s Mountain Plover Working Group

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Roadmap Partners Workshop ~ 8/26/21

A presentation-based session to learn about and discuss the integral connectivity between the Central Grasslands Roadmap and the contributions being made by NRCS’s Great Plains Framework and state program examples and applications, the Conservation Reserve Program and the Farm Service Agency, as well as the JV8 Strategic Habitat Conservation Plan.

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Mexico Workgroup Forum ~ 12/7/21

El 7th de diciembre de 2021, aproximadamente 50 delegados de México se reunieron para identificar y concretar actividades de salida para los objetivos estratégicos de la Hoja de Ruta de los Pastizales Centrales. Los pequeños grupos dialogaron intensamente durante tres rondas, en espacios centrados en las dimensiones de colaboraciones, políticas e investigación.

La siguiente sección identifica los temas y asuntos clave que el equipo de facilitación escuchó. La segunda sección, más larga, ofrece algunas declaraciones más extensas de la voz de los participantes a lo largo de la reunión.

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Bird Objectives & Tools ~ 10/27/21 & 10/28/21

Participant Agenda with outcomes, goals, and overview of the meeting

Workshop Introduction (Tammy)

SPECIES WORK

Venn Diagram of List to Catalyze Collaboration

DRAFT Species List Updated 10/28/21

Framing for working on species list (Matt)

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U.S. States Workshop ~ 4/8/21

This workshop brought together a diverse group of state representatives from across the Central Grasslands to co-learn about state strategies for addressing conservation goals, supporting landowners, and building collaborations on-the-ground that are positively impacting grassland ecosystems and rural communities. Read more in the Roadmap and States Workshop Inventory.

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Roadmap Workgroups and Committees (on-going)

The Central Grasslands Roadmap is organized by an array of partner organizations and working groups focused on different aspects of the initiative’s efforts. These workgroups and committees consist of leaders from across the diverse sectors working on specific tasks and projects to advance the collective vision and goals of the Roadmap. To get involved with one of the following workgroups, email us at info@grasslandsroadmap.org or complete this form to express interest in:

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Roadmap Scorecard Forum ~ 11/15/23

Existing and new members of each Scorecard goal team (from Spring 2022) and other Roadmap leaders and participants are invited to attend this half-day discussion on launching a baseline Scorecard for the Grasslands Roadmap.

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