On September 9, Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed an executive order creating the Montana Sage Grouse Oversight Team (MSGOT) and the Montana Sage Grouse Habitat Conservation Program (MSGHCP), reports the Wildlife Management Institute.

The red wolf (Canis rufus) is one of the most endangered mammals on the planet. Once ranging from Texas to Florida to Pennsylvania, it was relegated to a remnant population in coastal eastern Texas and western Louisiana. In the middle of the last century, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the fragmented population was threatened with loss due to hybridization with coyotes. The remaining red wolves were captured and brought into captivity ? rendering them extinct in the wild.

There is a lot of momentum building for collaborative conservation of large landscapes. The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Network will release their strategic plan next month and is making significant progress in bringing together partners, establishing shared conservation goals, and providing managers with landscape-scale tools to help them be more effective. The U.S. Department of the Interior is embracing resiliency and adaptation planning for a changing America at unprecedented scales.

An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool, funded by the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, is now available to the conservation community.

Conservation Briefs is a compilation of short news stories of interest to Outdoor News Bulletin readers. The stories cover a number of issues that have developed in the past month or provide updates on issues that were featured in previous ONB editions. Each story includes links to online resources for more details on each topic.

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