Colorado forests and watersheds are facing increasing risk from climate change, wildfires, and other disturbances. Communities, land managers, and policy makers are developing strategies and activities to address these issues at a meaningful scale. That means collectively identifying statewide priorities …
For those who have been following Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s process to reintroduce wolves into Colorado and CCC’s involvement in finding common ground and a collaborative path forward: The CCC Fellows have completed their science-based projects, using collaboration, to address …
Introducing the 10 Year Review of the CCC Fellows Program: An Assessment of Impacts For the last ten years, the CCC Fellows Program, unlike other fellowships, has challenged and trained students, faculty, and conservation practitioners to engage directly with communities …
This 2.5 day workshop brought together Indigenous scholars, community members and leaders, and collaborative conservation researchers and practitioners, to share experiences and lessons learned about research partnerships that simultaneously address critical conservation and community needs. The overarching goal was to …
Why Collaborate? Historically, conservation focused on saving species and protecting natural resources, paying little attention to people. Yet without the involvement of local people and communities, many past conservation successes were short-lived. Collaboration supports more enduring conservation outcomes because it …
We first began the research for the Collaborative Conservation Atlas project back in 2013 with the goal of identifying and systematically describing collaborative initiatives across the state to gain a better understanding of ‘who is doing what, where?’ Since then, …
Abstract: For millennia Indigenous communities worldwide have maintained diverse knowledge systems informed through careful observation of dynamics of environmental changes. Although Indigenous communities and their knowledge systems are recognized as critical resources for understanding and adapting to climate change, no …
CCC’s Research Working Group: “Taking Stock and Telling Our Stories” Workshop In 2016, the CCC created the CCC Research Working Group to leverage CSU’s existing research capacity and help guide the CCC’s research program. The Research Working Group identified initial …
On March 1-2, 2018, Heather Knight, CCC’s Associate Director of Practice and Matt McKinney and Shawn Johnson with the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at University of Montana, hosted 60 practitioners from the American West at a workshop …
Building Capacity for Collaborative Conservation: Findings from a Practitioner Needs Assessment of Collaborative Capacity in the American West. During fall 2016 and winter 2017, Heather Knight, Associate Director of the Practitioner Program at the Center for Collaborative Conservation, completed a …
