Collective Impact
What we offer:
We help tackle conservation challenges by tapping the unique skills and resources of participant stakeholders to meet goals set collaboratively.
Workshops & Forums - We deliver knowledge exchange, technical training, model collaboratives, and new stewardship using Eco Mare Terra’s unique design and professional facilitation talents.
Coalitions - We structure and manage complex groups to resource conservation, uncover an intersection of values, and inspire, mobilize and equip stakeholders at the grasstops and grassroots.
Policy Advancement - Based in our Nation’s Capital, we activate allies in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture and in the halls of Congress to fulfill their respective missions in tandem.
Portfolio
National Mammal Campaign
Project for the Wildlife Conservation Society, InterTribal Buffalo Council, and National Bison Association
Eco Mare Terra helped build a coalition of 110 organizational members, doubling it in size within one year toward championing passage of the National Bison Legacy Act.
For the Wildlife Conservation Society, InterTribal Buffalo Council, and National Bison Association.
Eco Mare Terra wrote the AZA’s Connect cover story.
National Museum of the American Indian VIP Forums
“In the Spirit of ʔAtatíc̓eʔ: The Untold Story of the National Bison Range” (2019)
Film Screen and VIP Event
Eco Mare Terra was hired by the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes (CKST) to organize a forum featuring the Tribal Council and dialogue with Members of Congress and Administration officials about the National Bison Range.
“Our Last Refuge” (2018)
Film Screening and VIP Event
Project on contract with The Wilderness Society
Eco Mare Terra worked closely with the Blackfeet Nation to organize a forum featuring Tribal Council members and a VIP reception designed to engage Members of Congress and Forest Service leaders in dialogue about protection of the sacred Badger-Two Medicine area in Montana.
American Bison Coalition
National Bison Legacy Act Commemorative Reception (2016)
On contract with WCS, Eco Mare Terra cultivated agency heads in the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to participate in a forum and VIP reception featuring tribal council leaders, Members of Congress, and American Bison Coalition members to launch recognition of the bison as our U.S. National Mammal.
The National Bison Legacy Act commemorative event hosted speakers including Tribal leaders, Members of Congress, and the Secretary of the Department of Interior.
Projects for the National Forest Foundation
U.S. Forest Service, Carson National Forest Plan Revision Workshop Series
Eco Mare Terra designed and facilitated a workshop series with USFS to amplify understanding and acceptance of revisions to the Forest Plan in four culturally-distinct forest communities and produced a guidance tool.
U.S. Forest Service Environmental Analysis and Decision-Making (EADM) Regional Partner
Roundtables
Eco Mare Terra facilitated three EADM Roundtables designed to gather diverse stakeholder input, and also co-authored the national report for NFF.
Carson National Forest, Red River Roads Collaborative Stewardship Workshops
These 6 facilitated workshops resulted in a community stewardship collaborative of off-road recreationists that voluntarily maintain National Forest roads and prevent sedimentation of New Mexico’s Red River.
Project for Wildlife Conservation Society
Eco Mare Terra interviewed 50 bison community leaders to produce “Toward a Continental Strategy for the Recovery of Bison on the North American Landscape: Emerging Learnings Report” based in the context of progress since 2006