SageCon Summit 2025

Day 1: SageCon Summit Meeting

October 28, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Four Rivers Cultural Center, Ontario, Oregon

A virtual option will also be available.

For the 10th annual SageCon Summit, we will spend two days in Ontario, Oregon focusing on sagebrush landscapes in Malheur County that burned in the recent 2024 fire season. In the morning of day 1, we will hear updates from SageCon and learn about the collaborative work of the Malheur County Rangeland Partnership. In the afternoon we will dive into the science of post-fire restoration and look at maps of the area we will visit in the field tour on day 2 through the lens of threat-based strategic conservation. The field tour will take us to a ranch that is managed as a mitigation bank and was partially burned in the Cow Valley fire, where we will explore post-fire treatments and fire recovery.

Find out more and register (for free) on our SageCon Summit webpage. 

Day 1: SageCon Summit Event -

Agenda Snapshot:

A full agenda with a speaker list will be announced later this summer! Lunch will be included and the agenda will include multiple breaks for networking.

• Welcome and introduction to Summit 2025

• Overview of the SageCon Partnerships Focus Areas - We will kick off the Summit by hearing about work that core partners are doing and how these efforts benefit sagebrush conservation across the state. We will touch on native seed, sage-grouse CCAAs, mitigation, populations and the Landscape Planning Tool.    

• Malheur Rangeland Partnership - Local partners will showcase the spirit of collaboration that has brought focus and funding to Malheur County following the fires of 2024 and talk about how they are prioritizing projects in Oregon’s largest county.  

• What have we learned about post-fire recovery? – We will present a synthesis of actionable information about post-fire restoration from experts and practitioners, including post-fire spatial planning, lessons learned about post-fire treatment outcomes from the 2014 Soda Fire, and best practices for using herbicides in restoration.

• Setting the stage for the field tour - Ranch manager, Andrew Shields will introduce the tour location and discuss the post fire recovery planning that is needed for maintaining a mitigation property.

• Dinner event (6-9 pm Mountain standard time) - In-person attendees are invited to join us for dinner after the first day of the Summit (dinner provided).