The Working Circle model is based on a comprehensive approach that focuses on three primary buckets: reducing wolf-livestock conflict, increasing social understanding for shared landscapes, and supporting ranch resiliency and working land stewardship. The buckets occur simultaneously, feed into each other, share a certain amount of overlapping activities; each bucket holding approaches with equal priority.  
This is the Working Circle 
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Reducing Wolf-Livestock Conflict

WC supports ranching communities to discover and implement long-term and sustainable strategies that reduce the vulnerability of cattle to large carnivores through herd and land management practices. 
Learn more about this effort ​here.

Increasing Social Capacity for Shared Landscapes

WC recognizes the need to understand and respect different values and perspectives.  We focus on efforts that honors those diverse values while working to bring greater awareness to the social dynamics and challenges surrounding large carnivore conservation and sustainable ranching. 
Learn more about this effort here.

Supporting Ranch Resiliency & Sustainability
Wolf, Wildlife, and Landscape Surveys
WC supports the implementation of land stewardship practices on working ranches that advances operational resiliency and economic viability while improving land, water and wildlife habitat health through regenerative agriculture practices.  Learn more about this effort ​here.
Understanding the landscape and how wildlife utilize the diverse landscapes is critical to forwarding viable conservation and wolf-livestock conflict reduction strategies. 
​Learn more about our field work here. 
Working Circles
Our work includes facilitating a comprehensive support system for ranchers who endeavor to overcome the multiple challenges of the modern world including living and working with wolves and other predators on the landscape.  This program supports practices that allow ranchers to keep ranching through holistic ecological and viable economical strategies. Learn more here.

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