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
Communication Workgroup
Funders Workgroup
Social Ecological Workgroup
Steering Committee
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
JUNE 2025
Young Adult Ranching for Profit School: June 2-5 in Faith, SD.
Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative Social Ecological Workgroup: June 2 on Zoom ... email Maggie to join.
Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative Steering Committee: June 5 on Zoom.
Rangeland & Soil Days: June 10-11 in Spearfish, SD.
Women on the Range (WOTR) Pasture Chat: June 12 in White River, SD.
Advancing Grassland Bird Conservation ~ Updates from the Central Grasslands Bird Working Group: June 18 on Zoom.
Central Grasslands Roadmap Communications Workgroup: June 18 on Zoom ... email Maggie to join.
Wall Grazing School: June 17-19 in Wall, SD.
Roots and Ranching Roadshow: June 20 in Iona, SD.
Women on the Range (WOTR) Road Show: June 20 in Winner, SD.
North American Monarch Summit: June 24-26 in Minneapolis, MN.
America’s Grassland Conference: June 24-26. Kearny, NE.
JULY 2025
Goal-Based Grazing School with the Principle Land Managers: July 8-10 in Brusett, MT.
Grassland Gravel Bike Race: July 12 in Ft. Pierre, SD.
South Dakota Stockgrowers Convention: July 14-16 in Rapid City, SD.
Friends and Neighbors Day at Area 4 SCD Farm: July 17 in South Dakota.
Women on the Range (WOTR) Grazing Workshop: July 22-25 in Faith, SD.
Summit Grazing School: July 22-24 in Summit, SD.
AUGUST 2025 AND BEYOND
Roots and Ranching Roadshow: August 1 in Leola, SD.
Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative Social Ecological Workgroup: August 5 on Zoom … email Maggie to join.
Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative Conservation Delivery Roundtable: August 7 on Zoom ... email Maggie to join.
Central Grasslands Roadmap Initiative Steering Committee: August 7 on Zoom.
Grazing Expo: September 4-7 in Billings, MT.
Grazing School: September 9-11 in Chamberlain, SD.
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.
