摘要 : As stewards promote conservation on a landscape, challenges often arise stemming from limited time, budgets, or personnel to implement the stewardship ideals envisioned. Coinciding with these challenges, our societal values and th... 展开 As stewards promote conservation on a landscape, challenges often arise stemming from limited time, budgets, or personnel to implement the stewardship ideals envisioned. Coinciding with these challenges, our societal values and thoughts toward conservation have grown more complex and demanding. An emerging strategy to implement more effectively conservation goals on the land is known as strategic conservation planning. Strategic conservation planning is a tool that may be utilized to promote conservation initiatives effectively through comprehensively combining space, time, natural and anthropogenic processes, along with processes to develop consensus among stakeholders (Pressey et al. 2007). This research project studies the landscape and landowners of the Central Wisconsin Grassland Conservation Area (CWGCA). ArcGIS was utilized to complete a geospatial analysis of the CWGCA landscape focusing on land use, core grassland habitat, and the location of landowners who had previously indicated their interest in promoting grassland conservation initiatives on their land. By understanding the location of the interested landowners in conjunction with their relative location to core grassland habitat, a telephone survey was conducted to understand the perspectives landowners (n=14) hold toward government agencies working in the area. Results provide several landscape specific priorities to promote the expansion of core grassland habitat, along with insights into the experiences and attitudes of landowners. None of the telephone survey respondents indicated that they have been involved in a decisionmaking process for the future of the CWGCA, along with a majority of respondents never having visited wildlife areas in the CWGCA. Moreover, survey respondents generally believe that government agents working in the CWGCA do not understand their priorities as landowners and state that there are frequent negative interactions with government agents. 收起