Welcome to The Collaboration Site. Engineered as a full support site for collaborative groups committed to resolving resource use conflicts throughout the interior west.	We'll help you get started and keep going! Direct you to funding sources! Supply the latest news affecting your work! Collaboration at work - stories from the field! Update you on legislation and regulations!

IN THE NEWS Southwest conservation plan nears completion   When Tucson-area citizens sat down to figure out how to protect an endangered bird while also allowing for growth, few of those involved thought any lasting solution would come of it. But that skepticism has turned to hope with an ambitious conservation plan.   SEE FULL STORY >> IN THE NEWS Collaboration -- Large in scale and time   The state of New Mexico, with the support of Governor Richardson, will begin to implement plans to coordinate interagency fuel treatment and watershed restoration efforts and help funnel available resources to on-the-ground collaborative projects.   SEE FULL STORY >> FROM THE FIELD Watershed restoration a top priority throughout the West New profiles of a variety of groups addressing watershed restoration. FRENCH GULCH REMEDIATION (CO) >> TRUCKEE RIVER RESTORATION (NV) >> SKAGIT WATERSHED COUNCIL (WA) >> READING ROOMS Collaboration stories reorganized We've created "reading rooms" so that you can easily find the information you want. Want to focus on groups who have dealt with endangered species? Want to know what keeps long-standing collaboratives working together? Our new rooms allow you to search for stories based on major issue, lead player or group longevity. BROWSE STORIES >>

IN THE NEWS ESA, landowners work to save bird ATLANTA -- Conventional wisdom once held that in much of the forested Southeast the only thing worse than having a red-cockaded woodpecker occupy your land was to have a federal regulator come around to save it. SEE FULL STORY >> SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENTS >> ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT >> IN THE NEWS Litigation to collaboration Why would a national environmental organization, a charter member of The Green Group, based in Washington, D.C., with 300,000 members, a staff of 250, and a storied history of successful litigation, turn to collaboration to achieve its goals? Because it works. SEE FULL STORY >> CONTACT US Ross Johnson Phone: (406) 495-1069 Toll Free: (888) 495-0757   The Red Lodge Clearinghouse is a program of the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation.

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