Provide implementation on and monitoring support to the dillon field office (DFO) and to accelerate these actions across public and private lands within the missouri headwaters restoration landscape…

Provide implementation on and monitoring support to the dillon field office (DFO) and to accelerate these actions across public and private lands within the missouri headwaters restoration landscape (MO) through continued integration into the smsp. To conserve and enhance the sagebrush steppe within the project area the smsp has focused on the following strategies: conifer expansion removal wet meadow and riparian restoration treatment of invasive annual grasses and removing barriers to wildlife movement. In 2023, the smsp launched a new strategy aimed at demonstrating enhanced flexibility in private public land livestock grazing through integration of emerging technologies, traditional practices, and collaborative management. This new strategy is summarized under the title of flexible grazing. Through enhanced coordination provided by smsp and through TNC BLM HQ partnerships, each of these strategies is supported through BLM partnerships and integrated into the missouri headwaters restoration landscape implementation strategy. While the scope of this agreement may evolve to include all of these strategies, this proposal is focused on the support of the following three activities: conifer expansion removal treatment of invasive annual grasses (IAG) and implementation of flexible grazing demonstration projects.