The Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (the Conservancy) and the Savory Institute (SI) agreed in 2011 to work together to advance the joint strategic interest and desire to enable enhanced conservation, restore ecological functions, and safeguard biological diversity of the seasonally dry grasslands of the world through the use of Holistic Management. The parties have been working together to improve the use of the best available science to enhance, better inform, and enrich the holistic planning processes and their outcomes. In order to develop and test the delivery of triple bottom line outcomes in these grassland environments, the parties are working to assemble a “Pilot Portfolio” of ranches.