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05/27/2026

Thank you everyone who attended last week’s Confluence 2026! From the sessions to the field trips, every moment was full of connection and ideas. We’re so grateful to everyone who attended and made this event event what it was, a week in which we all worked together to transform and strengthen the impact of collaborative conservation. 🌱🤝 Did you attend? What was your favorite moment?

A huge thank to our Indigenous engagement subcommittee for planning such amazing and enlightening panels. And of course, to our planning committee, event services staff, and our sponsors!

05/18/2026

Tomorrow we kick off three days of Confluence 2026 at Colorado State University, and we cannot wait to see everyone in Fort Collins!

Three days of conversation, connection, field trips, and working across divides. If you’re traveling today, safe travels. ✈️ Follow along this week. We’ll be sharing the event with you from the ground!

05/15/2026

Confluence 2026 is almost here, and we couldn’t do it without our incredible partners! 🌎

A huge thank you to our co-conveners: and Strategic by Nature.

And to every sponsor supporting this year’s gathering, from our Benefactor and Leaders down to our Champions and Guardians: thank you for helping make Confluence possible and keeping it accessible to our community. We’re grateful for all of you.

See you in Fort Collins next week! 🤝

05/05/2026

Confluence 2026 registration closes today!

Three days in Fort Collins, May 19–21, with collaborative conservation practitioners, researchers, students, and community leaders from across the country.

What’s on the program:
🦬 Three place-based field trips, including a visit to a working bison herd at Soapstone Natural Area
📝 Skill-building sessions on conflict, fundraising, communication, and process design
🧩 The Mentorship Match program connecting practitioners across career stages
🤝 An intergenerational panel on sustaining a career in this field, and more

If you’ve been thinking about it, today is the last day to commit. Register with link in bio 🔗

05/04/2026

⏰ Two days left to register for Confluence 2026. Registration closes Tuesday!

Here’s what you’d be part of:
Three days in Fort Collins with practitioners, researchers, students, and community leaders who are doing the actual work of collaborative conservation. Place-based field trips that take you out of conference rooms and onto the land, skill-building sessions on conflict, fundraising, communication, and process design. Honest conversation across career stages about what it actually takes to sustain this work.

This is collaborative conservation on the ground, with the people doing the work.

🔗 Register at the link in bio today!

05/01/2026

Field Trip Spotlight: Big Thompson Watershed 🦫

⏰ Discounted registration closes TONIGHT at midnight! Early-career, solo, or with a small org? This rate is for you.

Join us and on May 19 in Estes Park for a behind-the-scenes look at collaborative conservation in action. We’ll visit MacGregor Ranch to see a multi-phase forest restoration project and a Low Tech Process Based River Restoration site, where the beavers have already moved in and gotten to work on the new structures. 🐾

You’ll hear from partners across the watershed: MacGregor Ranch, Larimer Conservation District, Estes Valley Watershed Coalition, Estes Valley Fire Protection District, Colorado State Forest Service, Peaks to People Water Fund, and CSU’s Colorado Water Center.

Don’t miss out. Link in bio. 🔗

04/28/2026

⏰ 2 days left!

Discounted registration for Confluence 2026 closes Thursday, April 30. If you’re an early-career professional, representing yourself, or part of a small or under-resourced organization, this is for you. Confluence is committed to bringing together collaborative conservation practitioners, researchers, students, and community leaders for this unique gathering.

It’s a quick application, so don’t wait! 🔗 Link in bio.

04/22/2026

One week left to apply for discounted registration for Confluence 2026! 🌿
If you’re an early-career professional, representing yourself, or part of a small or under-resourced organization, this one’s for you. Apply before April 30 so cost isn’t what keeps you from the room.

Fort Collins, May 19–21. Connection, honest dialogue, and collaborative conservation practitioners from across the country. We hope to see you there. 🤝

Link in bio to apply!

04/17/2026

Field trip alert 🦬

Confluence 2026 attendees will head out to Soapstone Natural Area to visit a herd of ~30 bison on the range and hear from the researchers and partners behind one of the world’s leading bison conservation programs.

Led by Dr. Jen Barfield of CSU’s Larimer Foothills Bison Conservation Program and the City of Fort Collins, this trip digs into what it actually takes to build collaboration between ranchers, tribal nations, and conservation agencies around a keystone species. Spoiler: it’s a lot of relationship-building.

This is the kind of place-based learning that makes Confluence unlike any other gathering. Registration closes May 5. 🔗 Link in bio

04/15/2026

For most conservation organizations funding isn’t optional, it’s essential.

Before Confluence 2026 officially kicks off, join Strategic by Nature for Beyond Grants: Adapting Fundraising for Conservation — a half-day pre-conference workshop on May 18 built for practitioners ready to think creatively about sustainable funding. You’ll connect with conservation funders directly, work through the full resource development cycle, and leave with concrete strategies you can actually use.

Sign up for this workshop when you register for Confluence 2026 — link in bio!
📅 May 18 | 12:00–4:00pm | Fort Collins, CO

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