Land Stewardship
Center for Land Stewardship and Stakeholder Engagement
The Center for Land Stewardship and Stakeholder Engagement (CLSSE)
As a subdivision of Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University, CLSSE aspires to facilitate effective conservation and provide technical resources for landowners, community members, and conservation partners in Far West Texas.
CLSSE’s goals reflect identified priorities for the Big Bend area:
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- Offer resources and technical guidance to area landowners and land managers to assist in achieving their conservation and management goals.
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- Serve as a conservation liaison and convener for principal conservation partners to maximize the effectiveness of various conservation initiatives in this region.
- Provide meaningful, habitat-based learning experiences for land stewards, conservation partners, community members, and students at undergraduate and graduate level.
Resources
CLSSE is committed to providing tools, resources, and information to area landowners and land managers to help inform stewardship decisions on the properties that they cherish.
Far West Texas is still big and untamed. Our clean air and water, dark skies, and pristine wildlife habitat can be attributed to the knowledgeable, responsible oversight of the region’s large, intact working lands. The beloved “wildness” of this area depends upon their conservation efforts, so we offer programs to assist their good work.
We offer a variety of programs to ease the landowner’s financial burden when implementing land management techniques for the benefit of natural resource conservation.
The West Native Seeds Program is a multi-agency collaborative initiative with the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M Kingsville that provides economically viable sources of native plants and seeds to the private and public sector for the restoration of native plant communities.
Habitat and Rangeland Research at BRI helps landowners make vegetative decisions about managing livestock, wildlife and water. Taking into consideration their particular geologic area, soil type, and climatic variation, we use research to help landowners decrease bare ground and undesirable species, while improving the survival success of desirable species.
