Approaching the End of Field Season
Plus, join us for our final volunteer days of the year, read our latest blog posts, and more!
Together, we turned 2025 into a year worth celebrating! In the face of federal funding challenges, our community came together to ensure the conservation of wildlife & lands persists. Thank you!
Join us in celebrating all the conservation successes you made possible at our End of Year Thank You Celebration! This event is free to attend. We will recognize our Of the Year Honorees, share project highlights, and enjoy tasty food & beverages from our pals at HK Brewing Co.
When: Thursday, October 23, 2025, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: HK Brewing Collective Taproom & Bar in Salt Lake City, UT
Who: Volunteers, partners, donors, and community members (21+ only)
Please RSVP at the link below so we can plan accordingly!
Janice Gardner Receives The Wildlife Society's Jim McDonough Award
We are thrilled to share that Janice Gardner, Sageland Collaborative’s Executive Director, has received The Wildlife Society’s Jim McDonough Award in recognition of her dedication to wildlife and community – congratulations, Janice!
Save the Date!
Live PC Give PC is on November 7th
Park City's annual day of giving is on Friday, November 7th. Your support during Live PC Give PC and throughout the year makes our conservation work throughout Summit County possible — thank you! Sageland Collaborative's board of directors have come together with a board match that will double donations throughout the day!
Board member Lily Bosworth shares why she donates to support community-driven conservation:
"I joyfully donate to Sageland because there is reciprocity woven into everything Sageland does. For each project I give time to, I connect with community members who share my passion for stewarding thriving ecosystems, and we get to deepen our personal and scientific understanding of our home ecosystems side-by-side. For every dollar I give, I know Sageland's expert staff are implementing strategic work that advances science and fosters lasting partnerships."
Lily Bosworth
Sageland Collaborative
Board of Directors
Resiliency Through Disturbance
As Western ecosystems degrade and climate change worsens, nature's ability to bounce back from disturbances like wildfires has weakened. But Indigenous ecological knowledge and wildlife show us that introducing mild disturbances promotes complexity, and complexity builds resilience to change.
Learn more about the unlikely similarities between Indigenous cultural burning and beavers in our latest blog.
Wuda Ogwa Planting Days
Join the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation for their 3rd annual Community Planting Days at the Wuda Ogwa Restoration Site! The tribe is seeking volunteers to help plant ~50,000 native trees and seedlings to restore the land back to its historic condition.
When: Friday, 11/7 & Saturday, 11/8 from 10am-2pm
Where: Bear River Massacre Site near Preston, ID
A Summer Spent Cultivating Community
We invite you to dive into a summer with Olivia Chase, Sageland Collaborative's Summer Communications & Outreach Intern: a summer of cultivating community, getting outdoors, connecting with volunteers and partners, and sharing the joys of conservation.
Staff Recommendation
This Fall, we're recommending a conservation action (or... lack of action?) to support overwintering insects.
You may have heard the phrase, "Leave the Leaves," but what does that mean and why does it matter? Our partners in conservation at the Xerces Society dive into the importance of leaf litter for ecosystem and invertebrate health in a recent episode of Bug Banter.
Check out the episode to learn more about how you can make an impact for butterflies, moths, caterpillars, and ground nesting bees this fall!
This August, our shorebird surveyors counted over 125,000 American avocets across Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, and other sites across Utah — our most abundant shorebird species during the 2025 fall migration. Photo by Janice Gardner.
Thank you for loving wildlife and lands in the West!
Visit the project page on our website, check out our Impact Report, or connect with us on social media (see links below) to learn more about our conservation work. Please feel free to contact us any time to share your volunteer stories, questions, or suggestions.