ANCHOR: Appendix of Partner Resources

The Landscape Partnership Portal (LPP) provides diverse online learning resources from partner experts to support field staff and landowners alike interested in managing grasslands for wildlife and forage, creating pollinator habitat, managing sites with prescribed fire, soils conservation, and protecting at-risk species Home | LP Learning Network.

USDA staff provide financial and technical support for private landowners through Farm Bill Conservation Programs. To find a local office, look here USDA Service Center Locator.

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife| U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service also provides technical and financial assistance for voluntary habitat restoration and management across the US.

Bobscapes App: If you’re interested in managing or monitoring northern bobwhite, we encourage you to share the Bobscapes app with landowners in your area as a citizen science tool for reporting bobwhite observations. Data collected through the app supports University of Georgia’s Gamebird Lab research to improve understanding of bobwhite distribution and trends—without publicly revealing sensitive locations—and allows users to request technical assistance from Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever in collaboration with state agency biologists across the species’ range.

For monitoring grassland birds, USDA’s Working Lands for Wildlife partnered with Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever and the University of Georgia’s Gamebird Lab (to establish a standardized monitoring protocol found here. This methodology was applied to over 420 sites in the range of northern bobwhite and includes vegetation monitoring plus acoustic data collection for 10 grassland bird species. Standardized monitoring will allow UGA to update trends data and population models for northern bobwhite and other high priority at-risk birds in grasslands, including pine savannas. ANCHOR does not require this methodology but does encourage the use of at least some of its variables on grassland anchors to build consistent and robust range-wide assessments. Our partners are offering training on the monitoring methodology and we hope to include online training modules soon on the LPP.

The Southeastern Grasslands Institute has field staff across 24 states with expertise in mapping and monitoring diverse grassland types, and is very keen to conserve and connect all 118 grasslands types in the southeast. Please contact them if you have a rare grassland plant community or know of a unique grassland site that is imperiled within their region of activity.

The Center for Pollinator Conservation | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service partners with Canada and Mexico to conserve monarch butterflies and other at-risk pollinators nationwide; the Center is a strong ANCHOR partner and has a lot of great information on their website.

The Xerces Society conducts monitoring, training, and conservation planning, employing staff with diverse expertise in pollinators and other invertebrates.