Welcome to the Great Plains Conservation Network

The Great Plains Conservation Network (GPCN) is a collaboration of non-profit and tribal organizations working together to conserve and restore the wildlife, habitats, and ecological processes of the Great Plains.

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2025 News & Events

February 17, 12 p.m. MST GPCN Prairie Webinar Series: American Prairie Bison Program, with  Pedro Calderon-Dominguez, Senior Program Manager – Bison Operations 

February 23, 12 p.m. MST GPCN Prairie Webinar Series – The Southern Herd: Bison Recovery in Mexico, With Rurik List, Professor Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Lerma and Mirna Manteca, Rewilding Coordinator, Cuenca Los Ojos

February 26, 12 p.m. MST GPCN Prairie Webinar Series – Canada’s Wild Buffalo Summit, with Cliff Wallis

American Prairie’s grazing leases on BLM land are revoked

Scaling Up Conservation in a Connected World — A Paper by The IUCN/WCPA Large Scale Conservation Area Task Force

Buffalo Beyond Borders April 13-17, 2026, San Antonio, TX

New bison paper: Yellowstone’s free-moving large bison herds provide a glimpse of their past ecosystem function

Canadian Wild Buffalo Summit, February 4-5, 2025 releases final report

Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Conference – May 5-7, 2026, Saskatoon, SK

The Grouse and Grazing Project: Effects of cattle grazing on demographic traits of greater sage-grouse

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies 2024 Annual Report

New on our Resources page: USGS Publication: Climate Change Impacts on Plant Communities in the Sagebrush Region

New Tools on the Working With Beavers website

New on our Resources page: 2025 Wyoming Fences & Wildlife Handbook

2025 State of the Birds report

Grasslands Roadmap 2024 Annual Report

Grasslands, Savannahs and Rangelands: A Call for Integrated Action Under the Rio Conventions