Build the Community
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!
Conservation Delivery Community of Practice
Central Grasslands Bird Working Group
Funders Workgroup
Steering Committee
Communication Workgroup/Community of Practice
Social Ecological Workgroup
MAY 2025
o Birds. At Home on the Range Tour. May 30-31. Chamberlain.
AUGUST 2025
o Birds. At Home on the Range Tour. May 30-31. Chamberlain.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
JUNE 2025
o Young Adult Ranching for Profit School. June 2-5. Faith
o Rangeland & Soil Days. June 10-11. Spearfish.
o Women on the Range (WOTR) Pasture Chat. June 12. White River.
Advancing Grassland Bird Conservation: Updates from the Central Grasslands Bird Working GroupDate & Time: Wednesday, June 18 at 9:00 am MT
Meeting Link: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/fbf071f3/by60NDvIG0GSiDIzhljlKA?u=https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87320648288?pwd=c7nbOuhRpWCdORqBz3bpYV2hKDPly4.1
o Wall Grazing School. June 17-19. Wall
o Women on the Range (WOTR) Road Show. June 20. Winner, SD
o North American Monarch Summit. June 24-26. Minneapolis, Minnesota
o America’s Grassland Conference. June 24-26. Kearny, Nebraska
JULY 2025
o Grassland Gravel Bike Race. July 12. Ft. Pierre
o SD Stockgrowers Convention. July 14-16. Rapid City.
o Women on the Range (WOTR) Grazing Workshop. July 22-25. Faith.
Summit Grazing School. July 22-24. Summit
Upcoming CGRI and Partner Events
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.
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 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.
