Our 10th cohort of Collaborative Conservation Fellows was awarded $48,000 for work on the potential future of wolves in Colorado. Can we find a path forward together on this controversial canid? The Source recent wrote about the Fellows and their …
Lessons from the Mongolian Sustainable Rangeland Collaborative: Reflections from a CCC Undergraduate Fellow By Oliver D’Orazio Upon learning about the Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) at CSU, I immediately wanted to become involved. My volunteer experience with conservation groups and …
The land is green, but there is little for livestock to eat By Cini Brown and the Mongolian Sustainable Rangeland Collaborative It has been over a year since we returned to Colorado after spending a month in Mongolia. I am …
9.29.2019 New Directions New Questions by Kailey Carlson, Undergraduate Student in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Starting as an undergrad on a project I knew nothing about, this all began with my attempt to understand the complexity of the centuries …
This quarters Blog highlights Members of our Fellows Team visit to Quality Timbers and Wood Products LLC., in the small community of Antonito, Colorado, to facilitate collaboration among their custom milling operation and a developing local guild of Timber Frame …
Trying New Things: Expanding my Interdisciplinary Training with Social Science Methods in Ecology By Jake Marinkovich; Undergraduate student in Ecosystem Sciences and Sustainability Key Words: Ecology, Social Sciences, Fuzzy Cognitive Map, Ethiopia Everyone has their comfort zone. That area right …
On the domestic and the wild by Kevin Jablonski Large carnivores eat large herbivores. Humans also eat large herbivores. Beginning around 10,000 years ago, the long coevolutionary process of domestication enabled humans to largely shift away from hunting wild herbivores …
Modeling and Monitoring Shrub Encroachment in the Guassa Community Conservation Area, Ethiopia By: Cara Steger Since our last post, we returned to the Guassa Community Conservation Area to finalize our co-design of a community-based monitoring program for shrub encroachment. We …
Changes, Challenges and Promising Avenues By Bethlehem Astella, Cohort 9 Fellow As we returned to the fields in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, six months since our last visit in May of 2018, it was evident so much has changed. Our …
Beyond the Data Points Reflections by Kailey Carlson, undergraduate fellow with the CCC Fellows Project, Engaging the Collaborative Capital of Lion Guardians to Reduce Lost Livestock in Maasailands Though we may try relentlessly, we can’t always quantify human and animal …
