What is Threat Based Strategic Conservation?
'Threat Based Strategic Conservation' is a new way of thinking about natural resource management that shifts the focus from reactive responses to proactive, landscape-scale decision-making. It addresses the challenge of working across large landscapes with limited resources by helping managers identify and prioritize the most significant threats, direct management actions where the likelihood of success is highest, and protect and expand areas that are still functioning well. Emerging from the realization that issues such as sage-grouse decline are not isolated species problems but broader ecosystem challenges driven by invasive annual grasses, encroaching juniper, and altered fire regimes, this approach emphasizes tackling root threats rather than symptoms. Enabled by advances in geospatial technology, 'Threat Based Strategic Conservation' provides flexible frameworks—ranging from open to defined decision spaces, and from pre- to post-fire planning—supported by assessment models, manager guides, and decision trees to help practitioners choose the right strategy for their specific context.
TBSC for Collaborators with an Open Decision Space
TBSC for Land Managers with a Defined Decision Space (Pre Fire Framework)
